and 150 people were needed to drag them across the countryside on sledges
and rollers made from the island’s trees.
D.
Scholars are unable to definitively explain the function and use of the moai
statues. It is assumed that their carving and erection derived from an idea
rooted in similar practices found elsewhere in Polynesia but which evolved in
a unique way on Easter Island. Archeological and iconographic analysis
indicates that the statue cult was based on an ideology of male, lineage-
based authority incorporating anthropomorphic symbolism. The statues were
thus symbols of authority and power, both religious and political. But they were
not only symbols. To the people who erected and used them, they were actual
repositories of sacred spirit. Carved stone and wooden objects in ancient
Polynesian religions, when properly fashioned and ritually prepared, were
believed to be charged by a magical spiritual essence called mana. The ahu
platforms of Easter Island were the sanctuaries of the people, and the moai
statues were the ritually charged sacred objects of those sanctuaries.
E.
Besides its more well-known name, Easter Island is also known as
Te-Pito-O-Te-Henuab, meaning ‘The Navel of the World’, and as
Mata-Ki-Te-Rani, meaning ‘Eyes Looking at Heaven’. These ancient name
and a host of mythological details ignored by mainstream archeologists point
to the possibility that the remote island may once have been a geodetic
marker and the site of an astronomical observatory of a long-forgotten
civilization. In his book, Heaven’s Mirror, Graham Hancock suggests that
Easter Island may once have been a significant scientific outpost of this
antediluvian civilization and that its location had extreme importance in a
planet-spanning, mathematically precise grid of sacred sites. Two other
alternative scholars,Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, have extensively
studied the location and possible function of these geodetic markers. In their
fascinating book, Uriel’s Machine, they suggest that one purpose of the
geodetic markers was as part of a global network of sophisticated
astronomical observatories dedicated to predicting and preparing for future
commentary impacts and crystal displacement cataclysms.
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