Ancient Egyptian Survivals in the Pacific by R.A Jairazbhoy

This book analyzes certain myths and themes in the Pacific that hark back to Ancient Egypt. How could they have got there? Not by way of Asia, where there is scarcely any trace of them, but through the Americas, as is now becoming abundantly clear.

There was a long time lag, which suggests that it took place in two stages with the New World serving as mediator and cold storage. After countless generations, the visual iconography had worn, leaving largely oral themes to do with faith and death. Because the Pacific islands retain the Egyptian imprint at second remove, they are in a thinner form, yet quite unmistakeable for all that.

The approach of this book through comparative analysis has shed completely new light on dispersals and origins.