Taputapuatea is a wonderful world heritage site of human civilization which has kept alive in human memory the form of the ancient world humans have lost forever; it is such a heritage site, if properly understood in the original language of the Polynesian people, the geographical concept of the ancient world and the geographical understanding of the ancient migration will help change the whole world.

Taputapuatea is Taputa-puatea means the ‘area’ of ‘Taputa’;  –puatea or paatia means ‘area’ and Taputa refers to Tavata/Tavatimsa/Mt Tab/Tibet, or the ‘Heaven’; it may mean ‘tapta’ or ‘hot’, ‘City of Sun’ or the ‘promised land of the Bible’.

The birthday ceremony of the first-born is called pua-jiun-tea, and it is observed every year in the month of November; this is the first day of the bright half or the crescent moon day which is goes by the name of Jama-dvitiya means the day of worship of the God Yama, the God of Death. Thus the pua-tea is a term also meant for the ‘first-born’ and the God of Death is worshipped to save the ‘first-born’.

This cultural landscape at the last part of the globe to be settled by humans offers an extensive scope to study the origin of life on earth and its subsequent disintegration; the marae complex which forms the ceremonial, funerary, religious and political centre of the ma’ohi people is a rectangular sacred space at one end and it is called ‘ahu’ means Yahweh or Ahura(- Mazda).

Marae refers to Maya/Mayura/Mary and ma’ohi to Mahali, Manohar, menhir, and Mihir etc. It defines the geographical region along with River Mahi; Cevennes’s menhir is as same as menhirs of Udumbanchola(Pothamala Hills) in Kerala(India). These are second settlements of ancient people who migrated from Mahali region of the ancient world.

The stone structures are called marae Taputa-puatea and they are dedicated to the God Oro; the place identifies the world of the living called Te Ao intersecting the world of the ancestors and gods called Te Po. This is not an imaginary land as many scholars think. It is a real description of the land which the migrants have left behind them, i.e. the ancient world which they left after the deluge. It is that land which Ulysses visited during his journey from Troy to Ithica/Ithaca.

Te Ao means the region of Aornos Rock or the region of Orion of Ulysses’ Journey; it is Aaron of the Bible. Te Po means the region of Po-Tree as same as the Bo-Tree or the Tree of Wisdom. The region where the marae Taputapuatea are located is called Raiatea; the chiefs of the community who controls the ceremonial site are known as Tamatoa ari.

Te Po contains the sacred area of Matahira-i-te-rai; there is no difference between the Te Po and the Matahira-i-te-ra’i where the gods reside; Matahira is Mata-Hari of other texts; it reflects two names : Mother Hira means Mother Herat and Mother Hari means Mother from Hari region as same as Hebrew region. Ra’i means ‘Ra’ of the Avesta or the Egyptian mythology that refers to the region of Ravi or the Sun at Helios; Ta’aroa refers exactly to Tahia region at the foot of the Mt Sumeru; aroa also means roa or rohi, name of a place called Rohit/Rohit-khand. It is also a title called arora..

rock Te Papatea-o-Ru’ea—This refers to the Rock Aornos at Ra

red feather girdle maro ‘ura—means the Ur region

image of the god called ‘Oro-maro-‘ura—exactly means the two regions: Ur and Uruk which were neighbourly to each other.

UInesco observes, ‘As the ancestral homeland of Polynesian culture, Taputapuātea is of outstanding significance for people throughout the whole of Polynesia, for the way it symbolises their origins, connects them with ancestors and as an expression of their spirituality. These living ideas and knowledge are embedded in the landscapes and seascapes of Raiatea and particularly in the marae for the central roles that they once performed…’.

Raiatea refers to-atea of Rai, and atea means ‘a person from a specific place who works in a house or in a field’ like ‘pai-tea’ (of Odiya language)which means a worker. Rai identifies the country of Rai or Radha, birthplace of Ahura Mazda. Polynesian oral tradition say that spirits of Polynesian people return to Hawaiki after death to the Polynesians’ settlements via Spirits Bay, Cape Reinga, and the Three Kings Islands. This gives an indication of the places from where the Maori or Mahali people migrated. Spirits Bay means ‘Hade’ which Ulysses visited and where he met the persons like Achilles after their death at Troy and talked with them. It was Jerusalem/or a place near it like Bethany where people assembled annually to worship their ancestors. Cape Reinga means ‘Rangha’, the place of the Ganga dynasty; the Three Kings Island is as same as the Three Generations of the Avesta.

The marae complex looks out to Te Ava Mo’a, a sacred pass in the reef that bounds the lagoon. Atara motu is an islet in the reef and a habitat of the seabirds. On the island side, ‘Opo’a and Hotopu’u are forest valleys where sacred mountain of Tea’etapu stands in a ring like manner; older marae is known as marae Vaeara’i and marae Taumariari(Tauma-riari).

Vaeara’i—-God/Goddess Varahi

Taumariari—means the Tamraliti port in the Tamasa region/may mark the region of Tamba means Bronze.

Opo’a—-Orbo near Varahi

Hotopu’u—-means the puu or puro-hit of Hoto means ‘a man who presides the fire-sacrifice ceremony’ called Atara refers to Agni or ‘Fire’ and motu means ‘mati’ or earth’ or Mata, the Mother; Atara also refers to Atri, a Sage(a primordial woman of wisdom). Hoto identifies the region of Hittite or Hata.

It reflects social region where trading community were living with farmers, warriors, priests, and kings settled near the sea. It also testifies to their skill in sailing in canoes across long stretches of ocean, navigation by observation of stars. The entire Pacific region forms a single migration-unit and thus reflects one cultural landscape in which ancient world lives in paternal memory and on one inherited spiritual thought connected with ‘Oro’, name of a place, name of a language, name of a goddess, and name connected with a kingdom.

Te Aotea(on the west)—-Ao-tea means those men and women migrated from Ao region;

Te Aouri(on the east)— Ao-Uri means those people who migrated from Uri/Hari region;

Australs—-this name is the heart and soul of the ancient people which is the other name for Easter; means the Eight Places or Astagrama.

Kapukapuakea—-Kapuka-pua-kea/people from Kapakandara

Te Ava-rua—Ava identifies Avadana /Avanti; it also means ‘teja’ or ‘radiation’ coming out of someone’s face;

Te Ava-mo’a—-Ava Mother

Barabora—name of a place; name of a community;

Ulitea—Uli-tea means belonging to the Al/Uland or Alanda/Altai or Atala region;

Rarotonga (Rangiatea)—Raivata and Anga/Retanga/Otanga/Rangha-tea;

Oahu—Yahweh

Laniakea—Lania-kea

Orea—exactly means the Oriyas; name of a rice; refers to the deity Osiris;

Poedua—Podhuan/ the first-born/it may mean ‘Badua’ means ‘unmarried girl’/

Hawaiiki as indicated by the Polynesian mythology was a region in the Underworld; it was original home of the Polynesian before their migration after the Great Flood; the origin of the name Polynesian refers to the region of the Essenes of the Bible or the Issan region of the Pali sources. It was the Plain of the River Accesine means Chandra or the ‘Moon’. The name Asien of Ptolemy marks this land only. Hawaiiki means the region of the Ha-wai-iki; this refers to the three regions who were neighbouring to each other. ‘Ha’ is Harya or Ho Ho Hi Hi country; ‘Wai’ is ‘Wei’ country and ‘Ki’ refers to ‘K’ or the region of Kaka or Keki(means Mayura of the marae). It is seen in the Gilgamesh epic as a God, the other invisible-self of men and women.

Savai’i—means the Sivi /or the Saba region; people who eats the dead.

Sauali’i—It is a veru useful word that identifies the Spirit Region and the region of the ancient Israel; the word’s root is in ‘Sulla’ means ‘ladder’.

O’Hotu Matu’a —Ayutu means ‘all’, Mother of All

Ariki—-means arka or the Land of the Sun