Saving the Easter Island Heritage - General Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:02 PM On 2004-01-29 00:37, tikibars wrote: [I 100% suppost the Rapa Nui people preserving their heritage... and their continuing efforts to free themselves from Chile... but just to clarify: their current heritage is not the heritage of Hotu Matua and the Moai builders. That heritage was completely wiped out by the joint 'efforts' of Europeans and the islanders themselves in the 18th/19th century, mostly between 1770 and 1864. Thor Heyerdahl wrote in 1955 that he did an expirment where he moved a moai with those who were, in fact, direct descendants at of the moai carvers, referenced at museumsnett.no/kon-tiki. He doesn't mention how they are direct descendants, but he does affirmatively assert it. (forgotten how to make that link light-up)

On 2004-01-29 00:37, tikibars wrote:
[I 100% suppost the Rapa Nui people preserving their heritage... and their continuing efforts to free themselves from Chile... but just to clarify: their current heritage is not the heritage of Hotu Matua and the Moai builders. That heritage was completely wiped out by the joint 'efforts' of Europeans and the islanders themselves in the 18th/19th century, mostly between 1770 and 1864.

Thor Heyerdahl wrote in 1955 that he did an expirment where he moved a moai with those who were, in fact, direct descendants at of the moai carvers, referenced at museumsnett.no/kon-tiki.

He doesn't mention how they are direct descendants, but he does affirmatively assert it.

(forgotten how to make that link light-up)

Post #76806 by christiki295 on Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:02 PM