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[beeclops]

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[theyshapedlikefriends]

BIG Moai-san 🗿

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[memories-of-ancients]

Breaking News

Archeologists Capture Undomesticated Moai in the Wild

After months of observing and tracking the large creature, archeologists have managed to ambush and subdue a wild Moai. While in captivity it is hoped that historians and scholars can gain better insights into Rapa Nui culture and history. After a short period the Moai will be tagged with a GPS tracker and released back into the wild.

#history #archeology #moai statue #easter island

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Astrophotographer Abdul Dremali Wants You to Build a Relationship with the Night Sky

Easter Island

Photo by Abdul Dremali

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[stygianturtle]

Sanderstober 2023 Day 4

Oct. 4th: Take any historic landmark, and give it an autumn or Halloween-y makeover

Off the coast of Easter Island is Halloween Island...similar with some noted design differences.

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[nemfrog]

"Wonderful monuments of Easter Island." Marvelous wonders of the whole world. 1886.

Internet Archive

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[canary3d-obsessed]

“The Table Museum” action figures by Good Smile

(You can see more pics over here at Big Bad Toy Store)

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[adastra-sf]

The Maoi of Rapa Nui

Moai chieftain statues are the famous massive megaliths of Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia, carved about 1250-1650 CE by the original Polynesian colonizers of the island.

Many know them as "Easter Island heads," a misconception from having seen photos of statues in the volcano Rano Raraku partitially covered with soil. They all have full bodies with over-large heads - a 3:5 ratio between head and trunk, a sculptural trait consistent with the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head.

The island holds nearly 1000 statues, each weighing as much as 90 tons and standing up to 10 meters tall, though they average around half that. One unfinished sculpture would have stood 21 meters (69 feet!) tall and weighed 180 tons. More statues are still being discovered.

Almost all (95%) of the moais were carved from the volcano's stone tuff - compressed volcanic ash that's relatively easy to carve using only stone tools (toki).

Probably the biggest mystery is how tribes using Stone-Age tech could succeed in transporting 50-ton moai statues across kilometers of hilly terrain. Because the island was largely treeless by the time Europeans first arrived (by which time local culture and history had largely collapsed), the movement of the statues was a mystery for a long time.

Some transportation theories are more accepted than others:

The earliest accounts say a king named Tuu Ku Ihu moved them with the help of the god Makemake, while later stories tell of a woman who lived alone on the mountain ordering them about at her will. 

The longest-held European hypothesis was that the moai statues were dragged from the volcano to their destinations along log rollers, which also explained how the island became deforested. Pollen analysis has established that the island was almost totally forested until 1200 CE, and tree pollen disappears from the record by 1650.

However, Iceland demonstrates how simply using wood for construction and fire can quickly deforest an island.

According to oral tradition, the moai statues walked to their destination. A literal interpretation is that the statues were rocked from side to side while pulling them forward to "walk" them to their final sites, as demonstrated in this recent experiment. This theory holds the most scholarly support today.

A not-uncommon but highly unlikely (and, y'know, disrespectful) claim is that aliens placed the moai statues for the locals. Occam's razor suggests this probably isn't the answer. But everyone loves aliens. The debate continues.

The ancient period ended when the Rapa Nui people were devastated by Peruvian slave-raiding expeditions that reached the island in 1862. Within a year, the individuals who remained on the island were sick, injured, and lacking leadership. Survivors of the slave raids had to deal with Christian missionaries. By the time Europeans arrived in 1722, the island's population was estimated at less than 3,000. Foreign diseases and emigration to other islands such as Tahiti further depleted the population, reducing it to a low of 111 native inhabitants in 1877.

Chile annexed the island in 1888, but it wasn't until 1966 that the Rapa Nui were granted Chilean citizenship. The 2017 census registered 7750 people on the island, of whom 3512 (45%) consider themselves Rapa Nui.

The original inhabitants live on among their famous megaliths.

#rapa nui #moai #archaeology #easter island #history

[mapsontheweb]

Terrain Model of Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

by 725Hemeed

#maps #relief #easter island #725Hemeed #twsourced

[worldhistoryfacts]

Rongorongo tablet "B," and a tracing of some of the glyphs on the tablet. The Rongorongo tablets -- about two dozen of them survive -- are a set of wooden objects, carved with what looks like writing, that were found on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the 1860s. The inscriptions have yet to be deciphered. If it is writing, Rongorongo would be one of a very small number of independent inventions of writing in the history of the world.

{WHF} {Ko-Fi} {Medium}

#history #writing #chile #easter island

[curtvilescomic]

Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

#comics #Calvin & Hobbes #Bill Watterson #easter #easter island

[nobrashfestivity]

Jean Dubuffet, Totem: Easter Island Moai, 1958

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#jean dubuffet #easter island

[ancientorigins]

Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, was long thought to be an isolated and lonely place. But new obsidian discoveries suggest its earliest settlers may have made the voyage to South America, and back again.

#Easter Island #Polynesia #sailing #migration #food #obsidian #voyage

[sushi11]

Easter Island under the stars

Credit- grafixart_photo& Amazing Astronomy

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[vestaignis]

Чили.

Остров Пасхи также известен как Рапа-Нуи. Его площадь около 162,5 кв. км.Сам осторов расположен в Тихом океане и привлекает путешественников таинственными каменными истуканами, о происхождении которых ходят различные мифы и легенды. 

Статуи острова Пасхи называются моаи — это гигантские фигуры человека, вырезанные из горной породы вулканического происхождения. Высотой больше 10 м, они весят более 150 тонн. Встречаются моаи в виде огромной головы или с туловищем до уровня пояса.Идолы разбросаны по всему острову и часто объединены в группы. 

Несмотря на то, что поездка на остров Пасхи довольно дорогое мероприятие, ежегодно сотни тысяч туристов едут в Чили, чтобы своими глазами увидеть этих загадочных великанов, сделать фото с моаи и полюбоваться закатами и восходами.

Chile.

Easter Island is also known as Rapa Nui. Its area is about 162.5 sq. km. The island itself is located in the Pacific Ocean and attracts travelers with mysterious stone idols, about the origin of which there are various myths and legends.

The statues of Easter Island are called moai - these are giant human figures carved from volcanic rock. More than 10 m high, they weigh more than 150 tons. There are moai in the form of a huge head or with a body up to waist level. Idols are scattered throughout the island and are often combined into groups.

Despite the fact that a trip to Easter Island is quite an expensive event, hundreds of thousands of tourists travel to Chile every year to see these mysterious giants with their own eyes, take photos with moai and enjoy sunsets and sunrises.

Источник: Telegram-канал САМЫЕ КРАСИВЫЕ МЕСТА НА ЗЕМЛЕ.

Source: Telegram channel THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACES ON EARTH

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