Rapa Nui
All You Ever Wanted To Know Relating To Easter Island.
Easter Island is Perhaps amongst the most out of the way islands in the world but over 1000 years ago a small canoe piloted by people of a distant land arrived there. As centuries progressed this small canoe group prospered and grew an amazing civilization on the remote island. For a yet unknown reason they used volcanic rock out of which to carve gargantuan statues. People are amazed when they see or hear about these monuments called moai. The people there went by the name Rapa Nui.
Who were they originally and where did they go? Science has studied a lot about the Easter Island mystery and as a result has solved or debunked some of the stranger ideas, but the mystery continues. Click through here for extra info on tribal armband tattoos.
There is scientific proof for one of the more bazaar stories of the origin of the people of Easter Island. In the 16th century a Spanish vessel named San Lesmems disappeared in the vicinity of Tahiti. Stories describe Basque survivors marrying and breeding with native Polynesians.
Some of the offspring of these people endeavored to travel to Spain in 1600, but never arrived and never returned home. When tested Rapa Nui people showed the presence of Basque genes.
People most recognize Easter Island for the moai, huge stone statues that once stood on platforms, also of stone, called agu. These 250 ahu form a line all around the island, each one placed about mile from the next. 600 incomplete moai statues can be found near the rocks where they were carved, or laying on roads apparently having been on their way to the coast to be placed on an ahu. You should gain complimentary info about tribal tattoos pictures here.
Almost every moai is chiseled from volcanic stone from Rano Raraku. These statues average 14 tons in weight and nearly 14 feet tall. Some of the larger ones top 33 feet high and weigh 80 tons, but one was found that was 65 feet high, still not fully carved from the rock, and would have weighed nearly 300 tons when completely finished.
They were dragged to shore by 50-150 men, depending on the size of the statue, with logs used as rollers. You will acquire tons of supplemental info relating to tribal tatoos here.
Scientists who study Easter Island can’t decisively determine the purpose of these moai statues. People think their construction may have come from a seed rooted in similar statue creation seen around Polynesia, but which took its own direction when practiced on Easter Island.
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Rapa Nui [VHS] This elephantine tale set on Easter Island gets points for trying to explain the reasons behind the gigantic structures found there, but it unfortunately surrounds itself with a preposterous love story. Director Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) knows how to handle physical sequences, but his human actors (led by Jason Scott Lee) suffer from dreary, old-fashioned story elements: the l… |
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Rapa Nui [VHS] This elephantine tale set on Easter Island gets points for trying to explain the reasons behind the gigantic structures found there, but it unfortunately surrounds itself with a preposterous love story. Director Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) knows how to handle physical sequences, but his human actors (led by Jason Scott Lee) suffer from dreary, old-fashioned story elements: the l… |
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