The initial standard narrative of how New Zealand was thought to be settled by a relatively small number of Polynesian people over centuries of gradual adaption grew from the estimates of genealogical reckoning or whakapapa and formative radiocarbon dating chronology.A new strategic migration model validates a rapid mass translocation from Hawaiiki in the late 13th century and that the incentive for the migration likely was motivated by charismatic authoritarian 'mana' individuals or an unknown 'starburst' event.Research retrieved into past cosmogenic structures in southern Africa together with known medieval comparitive indigenous knowledge data, reveals evidence that the Great Enclosure structure at Great Zimbabwe was possibly a cosmic reference to a unique astronomical incident with unverifiable sources and mainly non-literate oral narratives that offer inadequate validation.An uncatalogued supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622 / G 266.2-1.2 in Vela has now been verified by a Japanese eyewitness account as visible in 1271 and is most likely Mahutongathe star that disappeared in the oral tradition. This extraordinary star may have been the primary instigator for extensive translocation south-westwards to New Zealand from Hawaiiki, similar to the formation of Great Zimbabwe that likewise 'followed a star' relating to the nearest, brightest and most recent supernova that disappeared.
Oral traditions and indigenous knowledge of the Limpopo Province in South Africa suggest a meteor event occurred in the area several decades ago. This relatively recent significant meteor event with associated features may have contributed to a revitalization of 13th century ancestral geomythology, also based on an astronomical event, and to an ideological transformation that augmented a vast sociopolitical belief system in sub-Saharan Africa.
This research sets out to answer a problem involving whether or not the first church was established across the Vaal River in the 1860s at Gerlachshoop (Maleoskop). An incidental find of an unknown publication may corroborate an answer to the problem. Anecdotal notes in a hymnal songbook record the first inauguration of a bell of one of the earliest Berlin Missionaries north of the Vaal River. This may clarify the location within the landscape and whether the structure of a church at Gerlachshoop or Thabantšho was erected, as opposed to being a deception or a historical figment of imagination by a subsequent director of the Berlin Missionary Society. the national heritage value of such rare early documentation of European/African literature and the built environment is of great significance and serves as one of the earliest records of German translations into the Sekopa language almost 150 years ago, with several early hymns set to musical notation, that marked the occasion when the actual Sekopa hymns were sung at the event of the inauguration of an early church and its bell.
This research sets out to answer a problem involving whether or not the first church was established across the Vaal River in the 1860’s at Gerlachshoop (Maleoskop). An incidental find of an unknown publication may corroborate an answer to the problem. Anecdotal notes in a hymnal songbook records the first inauguration of a bell of one of the earliest Berlin Missionaries north of the Vaal River. This may clarify the location within the landscape and whether the structure of a church at Gerlachshoop or Thabantšho was erected as opposed to being a deception or an historical figment of imagination by a subsequent director of the Berlin Missionary Society. The national heritage value of such rare early documentation of European/African literature and the built environment is of great significance and serves as one of the earliest records of German translations into the Sekopa language almost 150 years ago, with several early hymns set to musical notation, that marked the occasion with the actual Sekopa hymns that were sung at the occasion of the inauguration of an early church and its bell.
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