How did Polynesian wayfinders navigate the Pacific Ocean? - Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva
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Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - a body of water that covers more than 160 million square kilometers. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators managed voyages like this without the help of modern navigational aids. How did they do it? Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva explain.
Lesson by Alan Tamayose and Shantell De Silva, directed by Patrick Smith.
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When your ancestors were rocking the game thousands of years ago and you're a Samoan who can't swim well😂😭
Always amaze how ancient people unfold things like finding direction, star mapping, calculating days in a year, building pyramids and the likes without technology. Genius.
How the ancient Polynesians reached all those remote islands with essentially stone age technology is one of the greatest feats of human ingenuity in history. The wit and daring required to succeed at this perfectly encompasses everything that makes us human and sets us apart from simple animals.
If only Odysseus had such skills
Meanwhile I have trouble telling left from right...
TBH a lot of us were probably introduced to the concept of wayfinders from 'Moana'. This video is obviously a more historical approach. Great video 👍
In Indonesia we have the song "nenek moyangku seorang pelaut" or "my ancestors were seafarer". I'm still amazed on the polynesian ways to see Ocean as a conector instead of barrier
As a Tongan this was how my grandfather used to navigate his trip on the water and on land. The southern cross constellation was his key thing and remembered where they stood even if it was day and would name the Northern star - Tokelau , the south most star- Tonga, the Western most star- Hihifo and the Eastern most star - Hahake as these were the ancient names out ancestors used for these four main stars
They learned from a demigod silly
Polynesians plays windwaker in real life
European explorer: we are the best sailor
meanwhile Columbus lands at america.."india!!!"
what we will never know is how many might have perished in that vastness. such incredible risk in these undertakings, their bravery should not be discounted.
I'm always amazed at how different people from different continents in ancient times without having had any contact to each other figured out all the same technologies and used similar methods of navigation and mathematics.
~w~ as a Tahitian I am proud someone talks about Polynesia ❤
Those guys were ridiculous 3500 years ago. Incredibly smart and crafty people 🤯
There are still Polynesian's practicing these techniques today. If you want to really know what it is like to be a Polynesian navigator, research Nainoa Thompson and the Hōkūleʻa. I wish this video incorporated more about the other people of Polynesia - Samoans, Tahitians, Fijians, Tongans, etc. It would have been nice to hear the different languages as well, not only ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.
As a Samoan I am proud of what my ancestors achieved. They were nicknamed "the Island of the Navigators" by early French Explorer Louis-Antoine Bougainville for their advanced knowledge in star mapping, using wind patterns, using the sun rise and set points, wave currents etc to navigate the seas.
"Aue, aue! Te fenua, te mālie! nā heko hakilia, we know the way!"
In AP art history, I learned about these objects called mattangs and rebbelibs which were made of sticks and shells and they were navigational tools which showed the ocean swells and the positions of islands. The amazing thing is that they weren't taken on journeys, but memorized by the navigator. It's crazy to me that they could remember and navigate the ocean currents.