The Largest Ocean, Read Like a Text
Pacific navigators crossed the largest ocean on Earth without instruments, reading the stars, the swell patterns, the flight paths of birds, and the phosphorescence in the wake. This is wayfinding — the Polynesian art of navigation that settled every habitable island in the Pacific, from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island.
Mana and Tapu
Pacific cosmology centres on mana (spiritual power) and tapu (the sacred restrictions that govern it). Divination in the Pacific is inseparable from this framework — reading signs is reading the movement of mana through the world.
Related Traditions
- The Cosmic Library — all divination traditions