Was Polynesia Settled from South America? – Part II

Continued from the previous post, regarding the settlement of Polynesia. It has long been the standing of archaeologists and anthropologists that the south sea islands were inhabited by people from Asia moving across the South Pacific from the area of Indonesia toward the east. One of the fallacies ofthis movement is that all the winds and currents of the South Pacific belong to a overall South Pacific Gyre, which runs counter-clockwise around the southern latitudes of the ocean (they move clockwise north of the equator).
    Thus, the South Pacific Gyre is part of the Earth's system of rotating ocean currents, bounded by the Equator to the north, Australia to the west, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the south, and South America to the east. This means that in the area of Indonesia, the Pacific Ocean currents run east to west, or against any movement from there into the Pacific.
    It must also be noted that ocean winds and currents are the most important part of sailing in ages past, before the invention of ships and sail arrangements that could sail close to the wind—or sailing in a direction close to that from which the wind is blowing, but still make headway.

Sailboat keel uses the forward motion of the boat to generate lift, which counteracts the leeward force of the wind and converts the inherent sideways motion of wind in the sails into forward motion

After all, if the wind was not blowing behind the vessel (“driven forth before the wind”), then the wind’s force would tend to move the vessel sideways—so modern sailing boats have deep keels (basically a flat blade sticking down into the water from the sailboat’s bottom, preventing ther vessel from being blown sideways and provides the ballast to hold the boat right-side up).
    The first islands to encounter eastward from Indonesia are the Melanesia group, a sub-region of Oceania, extending from New Guinea island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea and eastward to Fiji, which includes the four independent countries of: Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea, as well as the French special collectivity of New Caledonia and the Indonesian region of Western New Guinea.

In order for Polynesia to be expanded eastward from Asia, the movement would have to pass through Melanesia

The name Melanesia was first used in 1832 by Jules Dumon d’Urville, a French explorer, naval officer, and rear admiral, to denote an ethnic and geographical group of islands whose inhabitants were distinct from those of Micronesia and Polynesia. It should also be noted that the name Melanesia (Greek μέλας meaning “black,” and νῆσος meaning “islands”) etymologically means "islands of black [people]," and was so named in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants. He did not include the islands of New Guinea because only some of its people were Melanesians.
    The point being that the indigenous people of the first islands encountered and all those between Indonesia and Polynesia, are black, whereas Polynesians are not. Yet, we are expected to believe that the same people out of Asia settled both areas, some becoming black and others not! In fact, DNA tests show that Polynesians are more closely related to Micronesians (far to the north) than to Melanesians, thus the claim is that Polynesians moved quickly through Melanesia, and did not leave much of a footprint in the land, while those who were Melanesians stayed in the land and settled. On such flimsy ideas are entire civilizations born in the minds of scientists.
    In addition, for some reason, the last place to be settled by this fast-moving Polynesian people was the closer island areas of New Zealand, hundreds of years after the settlement of far eastern islands of Easter Island. It is also theorized that the Polynesians for some unknown reason bypassed two major areas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and leap-frogged over them into the far Pacific on their march across the ocean.
    There is also the knowledge that early Easter Islanders who were first encountered by Europeans, worshipped strange stone idols and Ra the Egyptian sun God. They also practiced an ancient birdman religion, a form of which is still found among the floating reed bed people of the Indus. They made reed rafts and they had a strange writing system akin to the ancient Harappa script.

The same type of carved and dressed stones found in Peru are also seen on Easter Island, especially the specialty cut stones to fill gaps

Most importantly, they made Peruvian style interlocking stone walls, and they had circular burial tombs called Tullpa, similar to the Chullpa tombs of Peru, and they both used the knotted cord called Quipu for memorizing information.
    The red haired Paracas mummies and numerous legends of Peru all indicate that red heads were once a significant part of the population in Peru. The brownish-red-haired, green eyed, Araucano (Gold people) of Chile were one population that survived the onslaught of the Incas. Numerous other examples of Peruvian mainland factors have been found throughout Polynesia over the years.
    Events that unfolded in Peru that led to the exodus of red heads into the Pacific can be read in the ancient Rongo Rongo text of Easter Island which was successfully deciphered in 1892 by Dr. Alan Carroll and describes the ancient history of Peru; however, this has not been accepted by mainstream science. Yet, his translation names the many tribes of Peru and their relationships with each other, their allies, their enemies and the wars fought that led up to the final exodus of the Puruha and Cha-Rapa people into the Pacific. His decipherment contains detailed information that would not have been available to him, unless he was reading it from an ancient source. Unfortunately, because this text did not say what the scientists wanted to hear, his valuable work and the Rongo Rongo text has been ignored.
    Rather than try and fit round pegs in square holes, as archaeologists and anthropologist often do when they try to explain away matters by ignoring the most common and simple answers, and instead insert complex ideas that support their theories, why not look at this from a realistic point of view.

Sweet potatoes originated in Central and South America. But archaeologists have found prehistoric remnants of sweet potato in Polynesia from about A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1100, according to radiocarbon dating

As an example, considering the example of the Easter Island writing and histories, the existence of the sweet potato throughout Polynesia—a plant that was indigenous to Andean South America—and the matching chicken bones in South America and Polynesia, realize that moving with winds and currents (as did the Kon-Tiki expedition), man moved from South America into the Pacific Ocean to broaden their settlement opportunity. We see this in the Book of Mormon when one of Hagoth’s exceedingly large ships was used by immigrants to sail to an unknown destination (Alma 63:8). Since South would be ruled out because of it being under the control of the Lamanites, North was ruled out because other ships went in that direction and it was so noted, East was ruled out because they launched into the West Sea, so the only direction left would be West. And West of the Americas (Central and South America), lies Polynesia.