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Kadaklan
Founder of Burotu, the Melanesian
version of Lemuria.
(See Burotu, Lemuria)Kahiki
The splendid, vanished island king-
dom from which Lono, the white-skinned
culture-bearer, arrived in ancient Hawaii.
Kahiki is a Polynesian variant of the lost
civilization of the Pacific better known as
Mu or Lemuria.
(See Lono, Lemuria, Mu)Kaimanawa Wall
Located immediately south of Lake Taupo, on New Zealand’s North Island,
the stone structure is more probably a step pyramid or terraced, ceremonial platform
of the kind found throughout ancient Polynesia, although among the very largest
examples. Childress, who investigated the site in 1996 when it came to the attention
of the outside world, wrote (in A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Armageddon) that:
...the blocks seem to be a standard one point-eight meters long by
one point-five meters high. The bottom block runs straight down to
one point-seven meters and beyond. The stone is local ignimbrite, a
soft volcanic stone made of compressed sand and ash. The nearest
outcrop of such stone is five kilometers away. The blocks run for
twenty five meters in a straight line from east to west, and the wall
faces due north. The wall consists of approximately ten regular blocks
that are seemingly cut and fitted together without mortar (119).
For lack of any datable material, the Kaimanawa Wall’s age is elusive. Century-
old trees growing through the structure predate it to prehistory, but the Maori, who
arrived in New Zealand 700 years ago, were not its builders, because they never erected
monumental structures. It may have been raised more than 2,000 years ago by the
Waitahanui, whose elders apparently preserve some knowledge of the ramparts.
The Kaimanawa Wall is almost certainly a Lemurian ruin, part of a ceremonial
center created by missionaries or survivors from Mu.
(See Mu, Waitahanui)Kalevala
“Land of Heroes,” the national epic of the Finnish people, a 19th-century
collection of pre-Christian ballads, lyrical songs, incantations and oral traditions.Green steatite representation of a distinctly European
head, recovered from the pre-Colombian ruins of
Cuicuilco, outside Mexico City.