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Easter Island Where there are
still
mysteries |
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Easter
Island Where there are
still
mysteries
From Easter Island (Isla de Pascua, Rapa Nui) is a
scientific enigma. During the island's heyday, the life and deeds of its 15,000
inhabitants were recorded on rongo rongo "speaking" tablets (they were
practically the only people native to the New World possessing a written language). When Chile took possession of the island late
last century, there were little over one hundred islanders left; none of them capable of
interpreting the ancient writings, nor of relating anything regarding the real culture of
his forbears. But the gigantic, gaunt statues they left
behind still pepper the island, bearing witness to a great culture. There are few
parallels elsewhere to Easter Island culture. Its ancient inhabitants called it Te Pito o
Te Henua. |