first of all i don't know if theis should be here, second I was looking through a book about easter island and in it they said that there was something that was on the island and it had a translation which one of the words was commonlt mistaken for the word earth, BUT the word for earth was "henua" which if you add a W to it it becomes "whenua" which is the name of the turaga of the city of the toa of earth!
THAT'S WHERE THEY GOT HIS NAME!!!!!!!!

good theory!!

LTOT, don't post just two words...

Anyways, pretty good find! So that is how they got his name....

wow, thats a really good find/theory

And Whenua is also Mäori for Earth, and Pohatu means Stone in that language. And Kanohi means Face, and a whole lot more! And that's where a whole lot of trouble started...so I'm afraid you may well be wrong, but it's still a good find. I'm surprised many of you didn't know this, as there have been threads on it since many of you joined.

Most of the names in Bioncle are from the Maori civilistaion. And Whenua is maori for Earth. Many other names have meaning in maori but LEGO where sued my the Maori government over use of their language, especially over the Matoran's old name" " which meant something deeply religios in the Maori culture.

So LEGO have now stopped using Maori words and make up their own tribal sounding words.


EDIT: 400th post. YAY!!