text: Rubbish, you say?  You are talking myth, Mythman.  There is no doubt ancient Polynesians were great seafarers and were able to navigating from island to island using non-instrument navigation, but it is nonsense to say the first Polynesians to arrive here used such techniques to find the Hawaiian Islands.  To navigate successfully from point A to point B using non-instrument or Celestial navigation, you must know point B exists and you must know the positioning of the sun, moon, stars and planets along the route.  The first Polynesians to arrive in our islands had no idea they existed and would not have known the positioning of celestial bodies to guide them, so they could not have used non-instrument navigation to find Hawaii. The theory that they accidentally drifted here as castaways, supported by scientist like Thor Heyerdahl, is the one that makes sense.