Sidestep: Asiatic connections to Polynesian language

When the Chaldeans occupied that part of Asia which they afterwards made so famous, their Semitic language displaced that of a nation called the Accadians. One thing which is not so fully determined is the origin of the Chaldean or Babylonian system of religion. In those ancient days religions and worships spread from people to people, and there is good cause to believe that the Babylonians adopted many of their deities from the older inhabitants of the land. Many of the Gods bear names of neither Semitic nor Accadian explanation. It is curious that many of these names either have Polynesian significations, or similar names are mentioned in the sacred lore of Polynesia. This does not infer that the Chaldeans adopted Polynesian deities, or vice versa, but would rather suggest that both the Asiatic and Oceanic peoples may have received their priestly teachings from a common source. In the thousands of unknown years lying behind history the names of certain holy persons and the gist of certain sacred legends may have been handed down from a pre-Aryan, pre-Semitic, pre-Turanian people. By Asiatic we include Egyptian.

The above is just a small part of the similarities and the stories behind the names hold similarities as well. What this shows is that language, customs, religion and tools all had a central point of origin for many peoples and while are not into that which occurred before the first arrived in Aotearoa, living here for millennia before the modern Polynesians began arriving (1280AD), it is fascinating none-the-less.

So, will the DNA of our 'tall ones' in the cave we are digging out reveal an undeniable and ancient Asiatic connection? Probably not, but strange things occur when least expected.