Turan, mythical ethnological homeland of the Turkic peoples and their descendants, like the Turks of modern Turkey.
In the Rapa Nui language, however, it means "far off lands" and is the name for the mythical original homeland of the Polynesians.
Some of these traditions name a mythical homeland called Hawaiki.
Unfamiliar with such ships, the Māori people at Cook's first landing point in Poverty Bay thought the ship was a floating island, or a gigantic bird from their mythical homeland of Hawaiki.
Māori oral history describes the arrival of ancestors from Hawaiki (the mythical homeland in tropical Polynesia), in large ocean-going waka.
It is dedicated to the god Balimain who is believed to visit from the mythical homeland of the Kalash, Tsyam (Tsiyam, tsíam), for the duration of the feast.
It took its name from an alleged lost continent Thule, which was assumed to be the mythical homeland from which the Aryan race had originated.
For Chicanos born in the United States, Mexico is not home, but neither is the United States, so Aztlán is looked upon as the mythical homeland.
Maori oral history tells of a long voyage from Hawaiki (the mythical homeland in tropical Polynesia) in large ocean-going canoes (waka).
He later described the return journey of the Nordic Thulians to their mythical homeland in The Swans of Thule.