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41Indigenous

Māori Traditions

Unclassified / Source Needed.

Recorded claims

An evidence label is shown only where the kind of source is already established. No label means unclassified. A label is not a judgment. Source Needed means no source is attached yet. It does not mean the claim is false, weak, or disproven.

  1. Origin / Reality

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  2. Human Nature

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  3. Death / Afterlife

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  4. Rebirth

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  5. Other Beings

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  6. Other Realms

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  7. World Structure / Axis

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  8. Destruction / Reset

    Unclassified / Source Needed.

    Source Needed

  9. How Truth Is Known

    George Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition. The stories were oral. This does not file a Māori teaching.

    Source Needed
Sources & EvidenceShowNo source is attached yet. Source Needed is a research gap, not a judgment.

The tradition or source

What that source says. Not a scholar’s retelling, and not a SCARCE inference.

None attached.

A modern researcher

What a scholar or other modern writer says about the source. Not the source’s own words.

None attached.

SCARCE

What this project infers or sets beside the records. Not what the source said.

None attached.

Central sources

How we know

Where the evidence comes from, and how far it is from the people it describes. The labels are not a score. They do not rank traditions. A manuscript year, a tradition’s own claim, and a date from the ground are kept apart on the timeline.

George Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition.

The stories and genealogies were oral. Nothing in the oldest layer is a manuscript from the composers. No Māori teaching is filed beyond the existence of that collector’s book.

Original evidence → transmission / copy → translation / documentation → modern interpretation

  1. 01

    Original evidence

    Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence

    The stories were oral. Grey’s book is not an autograph.

  2. 02

    Transmission / copy

    Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence

    George Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition.

  3. 03

    Translation / documentation

    Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence

    English translation is documentation. A name translated once and reused for another island is already a distortion.

  4. 04

    Modern interpretation

    Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence

    No Māori claim about origin, the dead, or the gods is filed. A Tahitian account is not a Māori one.

Already a separate record

The twenty-one questions

Asked of every system. Gaps are recorded as gaps. Nothing here is filled in to make a pattern prettier.

  1. 01

    Where are we?

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  2. 02

    What is reality made of?

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  3. 03

    What is a human being?

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  4. 04

    What is consciousness?

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  5. 05

    Where did humanity come from?

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  6. 06

    What happens at death?

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  7. 07

    Does consciousness return to embodiment?

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  8. 08

    Where is consciousness between lives?

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  9. 09

    Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?

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  10. 10

    Can those beings become human or appear human?

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  11. 11

    Are there multiple realms or worlds?

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  12. 12

    Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?

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  13. 13

    Is the world itself alive?

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  14. 14

    Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?

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  15. 15

    Does history operate linearly or cyclically?

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  16. 16

    Is there an opposing positive/negative force?

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  17. 17

    What is humanity supposed to become?

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  18. 18

    Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?

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  19. 19

    What lies beyond the visible world?

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  20. 20

    How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?

    George Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition. The stories were oral. This does not file a Māori teaching.

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  21. 21

    Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?

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  22. 22

    Why did humanity forget?

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