In Moana (2016) her grandma says their people stopped exploring after Maui stole the heart of Ta Fiti and boats stopped coming back, about 1,000 years before. This depicts an actual historical event in Polynesian history known as "The Long Pause". The reason for the pause is actually unknown.

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image showing In Moana (2016) her grandma says their people stopped exploring after Maui stole the heart of Ta Fiti and boats stopped coming back, about 1,000 years before. This depicts an actual historical event in Polynesian history known as "The Long Pause". The reason for the pause is actually unknown.

the--larch on March 27th, 2020 at 03:48 UTC »

Grandma just told you.

nuberube on March 27th, 2020 at 05:19 UTC »

During this pause they created the double hulled canoe which allowed them to travel the far distances from Samoa and Tonga to Tahiti and the marquesas

RogerWritesThings on March 27th, 2020 at 09:40 UTC »

This post and the comments make me want to learn about Polynesian history.