The stars are how they navigated (wayfinding) at sea. They memorized constellations and used wave patters, currents, and the stars to tell where they were and where to go. European sailors also used the stars for navigating, but at least in the periods I'm familiar with, would have used a sextant, rather than a hand, when measuring the distance between stars in order to figure out where they were. It's all just math and geometry, basically!
If I remember correctly from my Hawaiian Studies class, they used something like 11 or 17 different signs to navigate. Apologies to Kumu Luke for not remembering. I'm kind of having a panic attack and all of this everything helps.
European navigation use points based on constellations to figure their position on a map, wayfinding didn't require a map because they memorized constellations in a full 360 pattern, the ship was the center as opposed to a point. It's a very different technique.
They were actually voyagers so they had home islands but they often sailed from their home to find new islands, adventures, trade, etc. it was a pretty elaborate real life system of ‘wayfinding’ that went on for centuries but had an unexplained period where they stopped voyaging for some reason so the movie actually explores a mystical theory of why they may have stopped wayfinding unexpectedly. Very cool premise
It was also rare apparently for women to be wayfinders, since in order to read certain wave patterns you had to have a specific piece of equipment for the wayfinding. At least that's what I read somewhere I'd have to look it up to be 100% sure
They were singing in Polynesian. Lin Manual Miranda sang the English. The Polynesians did all of their navigation by the stars. They didn't have compasses.
There’s a video in the extras of the movie that shows the research on the language and culture. LMM and a team traveled did a lot of info gathering to be as culturally accurate as they could.
@@voyager7x800 he might have lol, jk aue is just like he said depending on the Polynesian language it could be express as emotion in the sentence. Te vaka the singers are meloneasian so it could be that in their language. But Moana is a movie representing all of Polynesia.
polynesians are the greatest navigators of the sea, navigating the whole pacific ocean with stars and constellations.Our islands are small and far apart from each other, but it is said that we are not separated by our islands but connected by the ocean.
I’m one of the many who regard the ancient Polynesians as the greatest navigators of all the ancient seafaring cultures. For example, on some of their voyages to discover new islands they traveled far greater distances than did any other ancient seafaring culture, such as the Vikings.
Great movie. One of my daughter's favorites. She LOVES You're Welcome, so hope to see you do that one soon. The Polynesians were an amazing seafaring culture that accomplished so much without relying on the technology of the time that Europeans needed to do similar things, let alone the technology we have today. I really do hope that you watch the full movie and do a longer reaction to it because it's a fantastic movie.
Ancient sailors used the stars to navigate the ocean. That's why we have constellations, familiar star groupings that orient explorers. Ever heard of the North Star?
Opetaia Foa’i from the group Te Vaka co wrote this song. He grew up in Samoa, but is Tokelauan. The song represents Polynesian cultures blending(which Te Vaka does a good job of blending) with the first verse starting off Samoan (Savaii in Samoa is the legendary cradle of Polynesia), then comes Tokelauan. If the third part of the song was incorporated it is in Māori. ruclips.net/video/z6JOjfkxxBk/видео.html
Can you imagine how amazing it would have been to be these old voyagers before we mapped the world like we have now, sailing from your tribes on your isolated islands and finding these other people and islands and ways of living it would have been the most amazing feeling
Are these languages related like, would speakers of one and the other be able to sort of understand each other like Portuguese, Italian and Spanish speakers can?
@@Nightlady0228So before answering your question, you have to understand the three Pacific groups 1. melanisian (Dark skinned islanders) consists of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji (sometimes considered Polynesian) and New Caledonia. 2. Micronesia island (small island nations) such as Kiribati, Guam, Palau, Tuvalu, Wallis & Futuna, 3. Polynesian islands (many islands nations) such as Samoa, American Samoa, French Polynesia, Tonga, Tokelau, other. The language they sung in is mostly Polynesian language (it differs). So it can be understood in some way, some words are similar. So yes it's almost similar but at the same time different
Well as a Polynesians what I heard from my grandparents they told me that stars a used by our ancestors to travel from one island to another and as we all know, not only the stars even clouds our ancestors can predict what's the weather gonna be by tomorrow I think that's all from here..... Cheers
The ancient Islanders of the Pacific used ASTRONOMY to map their paths to various islands. They wove 'maps' using branches and stones to denote currents and islands they encountered. Some of these woven maps still can bee seen in archeological sites' museums... You thought of astrology- the belief that stars shape destiny...
3:16 BTW that constellation his hand is on is Orion. His index find is on Orion's belt and his ring finger is under the dager. This means he is looking to the Southern Horizon..
The starts are how they navigated way finding and they also used birds etc to find a brand new island also they used the temperature of the sea to reach their island if it was warm they would be going the right way of it was cold they would be going the wrong way
Old voyagers would map the stars then use the sky and how the water/weather was behaving to try and get a rough idea of where you were, very very hard to be accurate with and if you were in uncharted territory you couldn't go too far at once because you had to be able to find your way back somehow
3:16 What you wanted to ask is if their culture incorporated an Astrology like interpretation of the stars effecting there behavior. Answer is, no. They just know to use the stars like modern people use Siri. They can find out where they are by just looking up at the night sky.
On the island of Guam, Micronesian I know, there's a story about a girl and her brother. After the brother died, she used his body parts to make the lands and sun. Weird stuff
SalvoG - Polynesians INVENTED Celestial Navigation , without Computers or Math, they Named Stars & Constellations based on heroes & Villans from Mythology and stories. they also named Islands and have stories on each Island in the Pacific. also they use Ocean wave currents and sea water Temperature .
Im so obsess with We know the way because it shows what the polynesian ancestors use to be like and how they travel through the sea's the lyrics i have memorised it already and it's quite easy to remember when you practice to get to know it also the language is a mix of Samoan and Maori.
As a reaction video that I expected to have at least some reflection it feels like way too low effort. How do you listen to a song that's called we know the way, with lyrics like "at night we name every star, we know where we are" and "when it's time to go home, we know the way" and think astrology? Like, really dude, how do you miss the core content of the song so completely?
The stars are how they navigated (wayfinding) at sea. They memorized constellations and used wave patters, currents, and the stars to tell where they were and where to go. European sailors also used the stars for navigating, but at least in the periods I'm familiar with, would have used a sextant, rather than a hand, when measuring the distance between stars in order to figure out where they were. It's all just math and geometry, basically!
I believe also temperature, weather patterns, and animal behavior…. Note the hands in the water; dolphins and sea birds; the dark sky and rain etc
If I remember correctly from my Hawaiian Studies class, they used something like 11 or 17 different signs to navigate.
Apologies to Kumu Luke for not remembering. I'm kind of having a panic attack and all of this everything helps.
The stars give them Geospatial locationing, they know where they are relative to the stars.
European navigation use points based on constellations to figure their position on a map, wayfinding didn't require a map because they memorized constellations in a full 360 pattern, the ship was the center as opposed to a point. It's a very different technique.
@@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac the currents and tide and the moon
They were actually voyagers so they had home islands but they often sailed from their home to find new islands, adventures, trade, etc. it was a pretty elaborate real life system of ‘wayfinding’ that went on for centuries but had an unexplained period where they stopped voyaging for some reason so the movie actually explores a mystical theory of why they may have stopped wayfinding unexpectedly. Very cool premise
Wow! That’s actually very interesting, I’d be keen to watch a docu on this
It was also rare apparently for women to be wayfinders, since in order to read certain wave patterns you had to have a specific piece of equipment for the wayfinding. At least that's what I read somewhere I'd have to look it up to be 100% sure
They were singing in Polynesian. Lin Manual Miranda sang the English.
The Polynesians did all of their navigation by the stars. They didn't have compasses.
There’s a video in the extras of the movie that shows the research on the language and culture. LMM and a team traveled did a lot of info gathering to be as culturally accurate as they could.
Polynesian isn’t a language. I believe this is Samoan
@@Midv1322 Yeah, I should have said a Polynesian language.
@@Midv1322 it’s Hawaiian
@@Loe83 no it’s not the first verse is very distinctly Samoan. The chorus is Tokeluan( But I had to google that). None of it is native Hawaiian
Aue is used in Polynesia to express emotional reactions. Exclamation of pain, distress, or astonishment, surprise. Depends on the situation.
Did u read that of Google?
She’s not wrong, though. Like on this Samoan song Aue Ta Fefe
ruclips.net/video/PlEyp2WOjmc/видео.html
@@voyager7x800 he might have lol, jk aue is just like he said depending on the Polynesian language it could be express as emotion in the sentence.
Te vaka the singers are meloneasian so it could be that in their language. But Moana is a movie representing all of Polynesia.
@@voyager7x800 i am Samoan/hawaiian, Japanese (in case you wondering)
@@AwesomeGamingEntertainment oh
polynesians are the greatest navigators of the sea, navigating the whole pacific ocean with stars and constellations.Our islands are small and far apart from each other, but it is said that we are not separated by our islands but connected by the ocean.
Don't forget the Micronesian and Melanesians
I’m old as dirt and this is my favorite movie. I love all the music from the movie.
Thank you for sharing your time with us. ☮️
"We know who we are"...... "We tell the stories of our elders in a never ending chain". YES SIR ✊
I’m one of the many who regard the ancient Polynesians as the greatest navigators of all the ancient seafaring cultures. For example, on some of their voyages to discover new islands they traveled far greater distances than did any other ancient seafaring culture, such as the Vikings.
As a Viking yep this is true. My people were amazing at sailing but Polynesians were on a completely different level.
Great movie. One of my daughter's favorites. She LOVES You're Welcome, so hope to see you do that one soon. The Polynesians were an amazing seafaring culture that accomplished so much without relying on the technology of the time that Europeans needed to do similar things, let alone the technology we have today. I really do hope that you watch the full movie and do a longer reaction to it because it's a fantastic movie.
Ancient sailors used the stars to navigate the ocean. That's why we have constellations, familiar star groupings that orient explorers. Ever heard of the North Star?
Opetaia Foa’i from the group Te Vaka co wrote this song. He grew up in Samoa, but is Tokelauan. The song represents Polynesian cultures blending(which Te Vaka does a good job of blending) with the first verse starting off Samoan (Savaii in Samoa is the legendary cradle of Polynesia), then comes Tokelauan. If the third part of the song was incorporated it is in Māori. ruclips.net/video/z6JOjfkxxBk/видео.html
I'm from one of the Pacific Islands (Fiji) and yes before there were any sort of navigation systems our ancestors used the stars to navigate by night.
Polynesian peoples are noted for exploring their wirld by sea, using the stars to guide them. I love this movie and adore the songs.
Can you imagine how amazing it would have been to be these old voyagers before we mapped the world like we have now, sailing from your tribes on your isolated islands and finding these other people and islands and ways of living it would have been the most amazing feeling
The first verse is in Samoan, and the chorus is in Tokelauan.
Are these languages related like, would speakers of one and the other be able to sort of understand each other like Portuguese, Italian and Spanish speakers can?
@@Nightlady0228So before answering your question, you have to understand the three Pacific groups 1. melanisian (Dark skinned islanders) consists of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji (sometimes considered Polynesian) and New Caledonia. 2. Micronesia island (small island nations) such as Kiribati, Guam, Palau, Tuvalu, Wallis & Futuna, 3. Polynesian islands (many islands nations) such as Samoa, American Samoa, French Polynesia, Tonga, Tokelau, other.
The language they sung in is mostly Polynesian language (it differs). So it can be understood in some way, some words are similar. So yes it's almost similar but at the same time different
The constellations played a similar role in their lives as Google Maps or waze does in yours.
That is a very hilarious way to put it lol
Well as a Polynesians what I heard from my grandparents they told me that stars a used by our ancestors to travel from one island to another and as we all know, not only the stars even clouds our ancestors can predict what's the weather gonna be by tomorrow I think that's all from here.....
Cheers
The ancient Islanders of the Pacific used ASTRONOMY to map their paths to various islands. They wove 'maps' using branches and stones to denote currents and islands they encountered. Some of these woven maps still can bee seen in archeological sites' museums...
You thought of astrology- the belief that stars shape destiny...
3:16 BTW that constellation his hand is on is Orion. His index find is on Orion's belt and his ring finger is under the dager. This means he is looking to the Southern Horizon..
LOVED this movie!
The starts are how they navigated way finding and they also used birds etc to find a brand new island also they used the temperature of the sea to reach their island if it was warm they would be going the right way of it was cold they would be going the wrong way
Old voyagers would map the stars then use the sky and how the water/weather was behaving to try and get a rough idea of where you were, very very hard to be accurate with and if you were in uncharted territory you couldn't go too far at once because you had to be able to find your way back somehow
Ever noticed that those groaning from after her hitting the drums sounds like when you hear Night marchers at night.
Moana is about polynesian culture
Im pretty sure the song is a mix of a bunch of different languages, the one that I know is Samoan though
There is a live version of this song on RUclips you should check out.
3:16 What you wanted to ask is if their culture incorporated an Astrology like interpretation of the stars effecting there behavior. Answer is, no. They just know to use the stars like modern people use Siri. They can find out where they are by just looking up at the night sky.
“aue, aue” means “oh , oh”
As a samoan I can tell you this Is
Tokelauan.
Islanders are some of the best people you’ll come to know
3:00 and in addition to culture, science.
In my country samoa, there's a story of a giant who became a mountain i feel like its similar to te fiti but the story is not true tho 😕 😔
On the island of Guam, Micronesian I know, there's a story about a girl and her brother. After the brother died, she used his body parts to make the lands and sun. Weird stuff
SalvoG - Polynesians INVENTED Celestial Navigation , without Computers or Math, they Named Stars & Constellations based on heroes & Villans from Mythology and stories.
they also named Islands and have stories on each Island in the Pacific.
also they use Ocean wave currents and sea water Temperature .
"Polynesians invented celestial navigation" *Micronesians punching the air*
@@KadukunahaluuNanonesians honest reaction: 😢
I know for sure that the language Samoan is in this song
Love the movie and your reaction. Watching you from Alaska.
Alaska!? Glad to have you!
In the video of we know the way the subtitles don't show Olo Olo Vaka after Tapenapena.
Im so obsess with We know the way because it shows what the polynesian ancestors use to be like and how they travel through the sea's the lyrics i have memorised it already and it's quite easy to remember when you practice to get to know it also the language is a mix of Samoan and Maori.
let the video play then react, I hate these channels which ruin the video by interrupting it. Great job there

As a reaction video that I expected to have at least some reflection it feels like way too low effort. How do you listen to a song that's called we know the way, with lyrics like "at night we name every star, we know where we are" and "when it's time to go home, we know the way" and think astrology? Like, really dude, how do you miss the core content of the song so completely?
Aue means oh i guess?
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It's mouldy language
Wtf is mouldy, you really couldn’t use the time to search up how to spell Māori?? And it Samoan/ Tokelauan💀💀💀
this is samoan language
Aingggg this Samoan/Tokelauan 💀💀
@@shhhuppp3909 really sorry didn't know that
@@청케일리 it’s all good😭
@@shhhuppp3909 oh and im actually a tahiti dude
(I talk in french so i dont know how to say Tahitien in english im nine years old also)
Bruh really didn’t watch Moana?🤦🏿♂️
Aue aue means away away