Some Striking Indications that the Mythical Elysian Fields Were in Polynesia Felice Vinci & Arduino Maiuri

Abstract

As strange as it may seem at first sight, in Polynesia there is no shortage of clues that seem to attest to ancient contacts with Caucasian populations, such as the presence of megaliths and the physical appearance of some of the natives encountered by the first European explorers, not to mention myths, legends, customs, characteristics and names of deities, even traditional tales curiously reminiscent of the Iliad and Odyssey. In this framework, which seems to delineate a prehistoric seafaring civilization spread everywhere in very ancient times, certain peculiar characteristics that the Greek poets attribute to the Islands of the Blessed and to the Elysian Fields seem to be typical of the Island of Hawaii, to the point of suggesting a precise localization of these mythical places, bizarre as this may seem, right there. Keywords: Elysian Fields, Islands of the Blessed, Hawaii, Polynesia, Rhadamanthus, Cronos