THE HISTORY OF THE MAORI.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2373, 29 December 1921, Page 4

THE HISTORY OF THE MAORI.

AN INTERESTING THEORY,

In his lecture recently, Mr Wraggt- introduced an intei’esting theory on the qrigin of the Maori, on which subject lih Is at present gathering material for the publication of his book, “The Romance of Lemurian.” In tracing the wonderful history of the Pacific, the lecturer drew particular attention to Easter Island, 2,000 miles west by north from Valparaiso, and only 30 miles lound, On the island were 500 images, some 30 feet in height. How did these get there? The problem could be solved. Ages ago there existed a continent called Atlantis, which extended across to America. The occupants of Atlantis were highly civilised, and were sun worshippers, sending out missionaries to Lemuria, another old land which existed where is now the Pacific, and which was inhabited by a low-down race of people of which we still have a type in the Australian Aboriginal, to teach the simple-minded Lemurinns the worship of the sun by erecting immense images and other symbolic rock carvings. Later, owing to axial cant these old continents were submerged, leaving Easter Island and its images as silent witnesses of the terrible catastrophe which was experienced. Both the Maori and Moriori were of the Atlantian origin, and the script and rock carvings on Easter Island were very similar to those found at Raglan and in the huge basaltic pillars at Russell, North Auckland, which bore signs of the manipulation of early man. The double spiral which the Maori tattooes on his face is a direct emblem of sun worship.