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The Easter Island Heads Have Full Bodies!

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Friday, 27 April 2012
The huge heads at Easter Island (Rapa Nui) were discovered to have bodies beneath the ground which are controversially argued to have become naturally buried over time. This argument is contested by the fact that they were made with more pointed bottom parts and were placed upright in groups, all facing away from the volcanic quarry (in contrast to the way they all once faced inwards on the Ahu platforms).

The buried parts of the statues, uncovered for the first time by S. Routledge, are of great interest not only because they add to the dimensions of these already huge statues but also because they reveal unsuspected but particularly detailed decorative carving (having been protected from the corrosive effects of the air and the rain).

Easter Island is known in Polynesian as Rapa Nui, meaning 'Big Island', 'The navel of the Earth', 'The eye turned to the sky'.

Easter Island is situated in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and was one of the primary islands of the Polynesian Island group. Hundreds of stone statues or 'Maoi' lie scattered around the island, and encircle it on long raised platforms. The island poses several questions in regards pre-Columbian contact with the Americas.

The small, isolated nature of the island has led many to suggest that this may have led to the eventual implosion of tribal activity on the island, which culminated only shortly before its discovery by the Dutch in 1772.

There have been several suggestions of an origin and contact from both sides of the Atlantic.

The island was 'discovered' on Easter sunday (April 5th), and was therefore named Easter island. Before this, it had been called 'Rapa Nui' - (Big Island), 'Matakiterani' (Eye turned to the sky), and 'Te Pito No Te Henua' (The Navel of the Earth). (1)
A Brief History

The reigning consensus is that Easter Island was colonized around 300-400 AD as part of an eastward migratory trend that originated in Southeast Asia around 2000 BC. The settlers are thought to have been Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands, 3600 km northwest, or the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, 2500 km west. (4) The large separation of Easter Island from any other inhabited island has led historians to believe that their arrival was an accidental and once only event. This view is strongly contested, in light of other known examples of Polynesian feats of navigation, and the several various cultural influences seen in the iconography of the island.

The earliest Radio-carbon date so far from the island is 380 AD, from Thor Hyerdahl's expedition. (1)

The island was officially discovered in 1722 by a Dutch expedition under Admiral Jacob Roggeveen.

Like subsequent European visitors, the Dutch reported seeing not only fair-skinned Polynesians, but people of darker skin, others who were white like Europeans, and a few with reddish skin.(4)

In 1770 a Spanish party from Peru claimed the island for Spain. A conflict seems to have raged on the island before the arrival of the British navigator Captain James Cook four years later. He found a decimated, poverty-stricken population, and observed that the statue cult seemed to have ended, as most of the statues had been pulled down. It’s possible that some of the statues were toppled even before the Dutch and Spanish visits but that those sailors did not visit the same sites as Cook.

The Frenchman La Pérouse visited Easter Island in 1786 and found the population calm and prosperous, suggesting a quick recovery from any catastrophe. In 1804 a Russian visitor reported that at least 20 statues were still standing. Accounts from subsequent years suggest another period of destruction so that perhaps only a handful of statues were still standing a decade later. Some of the statues still upright at the beginning of the 19th century were knocked down by western expeditions.
Chronology:

380 AD - Thor Hyerdahl's earliest uncorrected C-14 date from Easter Island. (1)

690 AD (+/- 130) - William Mulloy's earliest uncorrected C-14 date from Easter Island. (1)

907-957 AD (+/1 200) - Earliest Ahu with Solar orientation according to William Mulloy. (1)

1772 - Island first 'officially' discovered on Easter Sunday by Dutch.

1862 - Peruvian slavers took 1,000 men (Most of the male population), to work the Guano Islands of Lima. 100 survivors were later returned, of which 15 reached their homes (carrying smallpox), which almost finished the population of the island. (1)

1864 - Total remaining island population - 111. (originally estimated at 5,000).

South Americans helped colonise Easter Island centuries before Europeans reached it. Clear genetic evidence has, for the first time, given support to elements of this controversial theory showing that while the remote island was mostly colonised from the west, there was also some influx of people from the Americas.

Easter Island is the easternmost island of Polynesia, the scattering of islands that stretches across the Pacific. It is also one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world.

So how did it come to be inhabited in the first place? Genetics, archaeology and linguistics all show that as a whole, Polynesia was colonised from Asia, probably from around Taiwan. The various lines of evidence suggest people began migrating east around 5500 years ago, reached Polynesia 2500 years later, before finally gaining Easter Island after another 1500 years.

But the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl thought otherwise. In the mid-20th century, he claimed that the famous Easter Island statues were similar to those at Tiahuanaco at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, so people from South America must have travelled west across the Pacific to Polynesia. His famous Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed a balsa wood raft from Peru to the Tuamotu islands of French Polynesia, showed that the trip could have been made. But if it was made, no trace remained.

Now Erik Thorsby of the University of Oslo in Norway has found clear evidence to support elements of Heyerdahl’s hypothesis. In 1971 and 2008 he collected blood samples from Easter Islanders whose ancestors had not interbred with Europeans and other visitors to the island.

Thorsby looked at the HLA genes, which vary greatly from person to person. Most of the islanders’ HLA genes were Polynesian, but a few of them also carried HLA genes only previously found in Native American populations.


Genetic shuffling: Because most of Thorsby’s volunteers came from one extended family, he was able to work out when the HLA genes entered their lineage. The most probable first known carrier was a woman named Maria Aquala, born in 1846. Crucially, that was before the slave traders arrived in the 1860s and began interbreeding with the islanders.


But the genes may have been around for longer than that. Thorsby found that in some cases the Polynesian and American HLA genes were shuffled together, the result of a process known “recombination”. This is rare in HLA genes, meaning the American genes would need to be around for a certain amount of time for it to happen. Thorsby can’t put a precise date on it, but says it is likely that Americans reached Easter Island before it was “discovered” by Europeans in 1722.

Thorsby says there may have been a Kon-Tiki-style voyage from South America to Polynesia. Alternatively, Polynesians may have travelled east to South America, and then returned. There is already evidence for that: chicken bones found in Chile turned out to be Polynesian, so we know that the eastward journey did happen at some stage.

However, Thorsby’s findings don’t mean that Heyerdahl’s ideas have been vindicated. The first settlers to Polynesia came from Asia, and they made the biggest contribution to the population. “Heyerdahl was wrong,” Thorsby says, “but not completely.”

(Article: New Scientist)
Tradition and Myth:

The French ethnologist, Francis Maziere, went to Easter Island in 1963, a few years after Thor Hyerdahl. The emphasis of his research focused on the almost-lost traditions of the islanders concerning their origins. According to Maziere, the legends of settlement of the islands by Polynesians contained allusions to catastrophism. For example, one legend says "King Hotu-Matua's country was called Maori, and it was on the continent of Hiva...The king saw that the land was slowly sinking in the sea", as a result he put all his people into two giant canoes and sailed East to Easter Island. Another legend says that Easter Island was once 'part of a larger country broken up by Uoke because of the sins of its people'.
The Monuments of Easter Island:

The principal stone monuments on Easter Island are ceremonial paths with paved borders, tumuli, pakeopa (or ahu), and, finally, the great stone statues or 'Maoi'.
The 'Maoi' - (The Stone Statues)

Easter Island is perhaps best known for its immense stone statues 'Moai', of which there are approximately 900 scattered across the island. Some of the Maoi were placed, facing towards the centre of the island, on platforms called 'Ahu', built along the coasts. Captain Cook was told in 1774 that they were monuments to earlier 'ariki's', or royalty. The 'Maoi' are also described in local tradition as having once possessed 'mana' or a beneficial power.

All Easter Island’s giant statues were supposedly made within the space of a few hundred years. Different phases are clearly discernible, and may be separated by far longer periods than orthodox opinion allows. It is significant that the statues do not bear the slightest resemblance to the Polynesians, and in terms of size, appearance, and number are unique in the Pacific.

All the giant statues on Easter Island have long ears, and some islanders still practised ear elongation at the time the first Europeans arrived. The custom was also practised in the Marquesas Islands in Polynesia, and in Peru; the Incas said they had inherited the custom from their divine ancestors. The oldest known practice of ear extension was among the mariners in the prehistoric Indus Valley harbour-city of Lothal, where large numbers of big earplugs of the type used in ancient Mexico, Peru, and Easter Island have been found. Hindu rulers subsequently adopted the custom, but it was restricted to members of the royal families and images of the Hindu gods. Buddha images with long ears are found all over Asia, and long-eared stone statues have also been dug up in the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

Hundreds of Maoi are still to be found scattered lying around the island, raising the question of why there are just so many, with more on the way..

Numerous half-finished heads also lie abandoned in the Rano Raraki quarry - as if left suddenly, mid-work.

The huge heads were discovered to have bodies beneath the ground which are controversially argued to have become naturally buried over time. This argument is contested by the fact that they were made with more pointed bottom parts and were placed upright in groups, all facing away from the volcanic quarry (in contrast to the way they all once faced inwards on the Ahu platforms).

The buried parts of the statues, uncovered for the first time by S. Routledge, are of great interest not only because they add to the dimensions of these already huge statues but also because they reveal unsuspected but particularly detailed decorative carving (having been protected from the corrosive effects of the air and the rain).

There is said to be a distinct difference between the statues at Rano Raraku and those on the Ahu which is that the statues at the crater have a pointed base, destined to be buried in the ground, while those on the ahu have a flat base, so that they can stand on these monuments. This finding is disputed by Heyerdahl, who states categorically that following an examination of hundreds of statues, only one has ever been found with a pointed bottom, and that he believes, was because it was faulty. his contention is that they were all destined to eventually encircle the whole island on Ahu.

The statues at the crater are scattered around in a random manner, whereas the statues at the ahu, when they were still standing, were perfectly aligned and in a group. Although the giant statues appear scattered haphazardly, they actually form three major groups on the inner slope of the crater, facing north, such that they all have their backs to the face of the volcanic rock from which they were carved.
The Navel of the Navel: Easter Island

It is an interesting fact that the islanders of Easter Island worship a mysterious site with 5 stone spheres; in the centre of a round stone-enclosure is a bigger stone sphere with 4 smaller stone spheres surrounding it. The site, "Te pito kura" must have been a ritual centre for the earliest islanders to pray and divine for something. The stone sphere on Easter Isle is at the northern coastal area of the island, just north of the statue quarry at the volcanic crater of Rano Raraku.

The islanders have a legend that the statues were moved to the platforms and raised upright by the use of mana, or mind power. Either the god Makemake, or priests or chiefs commanded them to walk or to float through the air, and according to one legend, use was made of a finely crafted stone sphere, 75 cm (2.5 ft) in diameter, called te pito kura (‘the golden navel’ or ‘the navel of light’), to focus the mana.

The Rapa Nui term "Te Pito Kura" translates to "Golden Navel", or "Navel of Light", while "Te Pito Te Henua" translates to "Navel of the World"; which is what Rapa Nui is often referred to by its residents, referencing its place in Polynesian mythology. This specific site is the navel of the navel, as it were, located on the island's shore near Anakena, the spot where Rapa Nui's legendary founding figure, Hotu Matura, is said to have landed. Stone barriers surround a worked stone sphere (the "navel" itself) measuring some 75 centimetres in diameter, reputedly brought by Hotu Matura from overseas. Geological sourcing, however, indicates the sphere is actually of local origin.

http://www.earth-heal.com/index.php/...ll-bodies.html

[etdgxcnc]

Holy shit! V cool.

[Kliopeion]

they have bodies - but no breasts !

[jadabaad]

At least they aren't directly on the beach for high tide.

[abossakon]

So the question remains - are they buried intentionally or covered up over time?

More pressing to me is how the fvck did they move these giant statues using primitive means?? Like the pyramids, lots of questions with no answers.

[Sheelldaw]

So the question remains - are they buried intentionally or covered up over time?

More pressing to me is how the fvck did they move these giant statues using primitive means?? Like the pyramids, lots of questions with no answers.

It's easy if you know how.

[Timoxari]

The more I study history the more discrepancies I see in the "official story." Stuff like this really gets the gears turning for me. Not only how they would have carved and moved the statues but why are they are buried?

A good starting place is to realize the scientists don't have a friggin clue, being as brain washed as everyone else or they do but are intentionally misleading us.

[toopyimport]

A few thousand years ago, or more, did they refer to anything they couldn't do or understand as primitive?

[JTS_tv]

People forget just how remote Easter Island is from everywhere else. The existance of those statues is insane.

[Jeaxatoem]

So the question remains - are they buried intentionally or covered up over time?

More pressing to me is how the fvck did they move these giant statues using primitive means?? Like the pyramids, lots of questions with no answers.

The answers you seek are in the book you never look at

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

[dalnecymync]

The answers you seek are in the book you never look at

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

That is a cool quote, but understanding how a lever works, helps too. Simple tools made out of rope and/or logs, something any shipbuilder no matter primitive, could make, are all that is needed.

See: http://www.bigstones.com/modmeg.html for example - a big log, some small logs, and they are moving something weighing a ton.

[brulpcoersero]

The more I study history the more discrepancies I see in the "official story." Stuff like this really gets the gears turning for me. Not only how they would have carved and moved the statues but why are they are buried?

A good starting place is to realize the scientists don't have a friggin clue, being as brain washed as everyone else or they do but are intentionally misleading us.

It is the latter mostly. Where do scientists come from and get their training? Universities, who controls the Universities and the material that is studied within them? Hint: It's not a turkey club.

[Dfvgthyju]

Here's a theory off the cuff.

They dug holes, rolled the statues over the holes on logs and then tipped the statues into the holes in an upright position. Then they buried the statues up to the shoulders, thus being certain the damn things would not tip over.

Why? Fuck if I know. Maybe they just wanted to screw with peoples heads in the future.

Apparently they did too, since it appears nearly everyone who came along and found the statues later tried to tip them all over.

Why? Fuck if I know.

[baritkello]

sweet... it's like finding easter eggs!

[durootrium]

Are they anatomically correct?

[jadabaad]

Why? Fuck if I know.

Many pacific islanders religions believe heavily on a sort a purgatory after death,

maybe they were torturing these idols to alleviate some of that.

Maybe its a cap stone, and there's a king planted beneath them with treasure?

[Cajlwdvx]

There is on Easter Island, facing the sea on the south central part of the island a 'shrine' with multiple of these stone gods lined up. Looks like a picture of the royal family or something like that. The rulerz. Anyway, here's a picture of it:

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Maybe they had an elite clever enough to fool everybody into being slaves, and they had the slaves make these statues. Then the slaves came to their senses and overthrew the clever, evil elite. And this is what slavery bequeathed to this island. I doubt you could do anything like those statues without slaves.

Hatha

[Vjwkvkoy]

It's easy if you know how.

That kinda sounds like Palini.

[Vjwkvkoy]

Under the right circumstances all those round rocks and gravel could move some pretty heavy stuff, not to mention that there might have been wood involved.

[abossakon]

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The Nephilim built them? Maybe. Perhaps they are homage to the Annunaki.