Giants From The Dreamtime (excerpts Chapter20) Aotearoa-Land of the Moehau Megazealander Mysteries

GIANTS
FROM THE DREAMTIME
The YOWIE in Myth and Reality
By Rex Gilroy

Excerpts from my 2001 Book On the Yowie
Chapter 20. Aotearoa-Land of the Moehau Megazealander Mysteries

For many disbelievers only a personal experience could ever convince them of the Yowie's existence.

I was convinced for many years before I had what may or may not have been three encounters with these hominids.

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Aotearoa-Land of the Moehau Megazealander Mysteries

There is a mystery lurking in the wild and untamed mountains and forests of New Zealand. It is a mystery dismissed as a myth by anthropologists, but one which has persisted since the arrival of the first Maori colonists from Polynesia centuries ago.

The mystery concerns the existence of races of primitive, hairy, giant-size and smaller hominids, said to have survived in these wilds since ice-age times.

Perhaps the 'mystery' has not so much to do with their existence, but how these hominids were able to reach New Zealand in the first place.

The logical explanation of course is that they arrived here via a land-bridge that formerly connected New Zealand to Melanesia-Australia.

Could such a 'bridge' have existed?

During the Mesozoic era, about 150 million years ago, New Zealand was linked with Australia, India, Africa and South America in one supercontinent called Gondwanaland.

New Zealand separated from Australia about 70 million years ago when the Indian-Australia plate began to swing away from the other continental masses. About the same time New Zealand also separated from Antarctica.

At this time as already shown, New Zealand was part of a massive sprawling continental crust which included, via what is now the Norfolk Island Ridge stretching from North Island to New Caledonia, the islands of Melanesia/New Guinea, and south-east Asia.

By 20,000 years ago what are now the North and South Islands, and also the third, smaller Stewart Island south of Invercargill across Foveaux Strait was one continuos landmass. Then around 12,000 years ago as the last great ice-age came to a close worldwide, the melting icecaps caused sea levels to rise, inundating low-lying land surfaces. This, together with local geological upheavals, shaped the present New Zealand and submerged the great Melanesian 'bridge' to a depth of up to 2,000m below sea-level.

"Preposterous, no trace of such a 'bridge' exists" said a geologists to me some years ago, yet centuries of powerful ocean currents can easily carve away any traces of former surface landmasses, as has been the case with the former Bass Strait land bridge between Tasmania and Victoria.

That the above events were indeed witnessed by humans is evidenced in the folklore of the Maori people.
One of many variations of Maori legends dealing with the submergence of the great Melanesian/New Zealand land shelf, was collected by researcher John White in 1887 from an old Maori tohunga or priest:

"On the paradise land of Whainga-roa [north of Cape Rienga] there lived a happy people called the Ngati-Kaiperu. One day the earth shook. The fire god Ruaumoko was angry. He opened up the land and a deluge of fire flowed from the earth. The land heaved and sighed. People and settlements were destroyed and swept away as the waters overwhelmed the land, carrying it below the sea. Some people escaped on rafts and canoes but most of the Ngati-Kaiperu drowned."

"Today the spirits of the dead travel to the sunken paradise by way of Cape Te Rienga. They use the roots and branches of an old Pohutukawa tree as a ladder with which they descend below the waters to the paradise of sunken Whainga-roa."

The Maori people only settled North Island around 1100AD. From whom did they obtain these traditions? Perhaps from the Moriori, an earlier, more primitive Polynesian people who were already established in the North Island well before the first Maori arrival.

Or, perhaps the 'Moa Hunters', another pre-Maori Polynesian people who hunted the giant flightless emu-like Moa birds they discovered there into virtual extinction, across both main islands before the arrival of the Maoris.
And there were also the mysterious Patupaiarehe, a white-skinned, blue-eyed, red-haired race often regarded as fairies in academic literature, despite their fort-building and war-making activities.

From where did they come?

Some authorities suggest they were ancient seafarers from far-off Mesopotamia, while still others suggest they were ancient Scandinavians. However, these pre-Maori inhabitants could only have been in residence from around the 2000BC period at most [based upon megalithic and other archaeological evidence], and as we are dealing with geological events that occurred around 12,000 years ago, who else was present to pass on accounts of this great upheaval? Here the mystery deepens.

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GIANTS
FROM THE DREAMTIME
The YOWIE in Myth and Reality
By Rex Gilroy