
Easter Island Statues
As it is Easter I thought it appropriate that we take a quick look at one of the most mysterious places in the world aptly named ‘Easter Island’ given its name by the island’s first recorded European visitor the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722, while searching for ‘Davis’ or ‘Davids Island’.

Location Of Easter Island
Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called Moai thought to have been built around 500 years ago. They are dotted all around the Island appearing almost to be it’s Guardians. Exactly why and how these ancient wonders were assembled is still not fully understood.
The Scientific literature tells us that almost all (95%) moai were carved out solidified volcanic ash or ‘tuff’ found at a single site inside the extinct volcano Rano Raraku using only stone hand chisels,’ the stone chisels were sharpened by chipping off a new edge when dulled’.
Allegedly many teams worked on different statues at the same time, and a single Moai took a team of five or six men approximately one year to complete.
The largest statue weighs 82 tons and 9.8 m (32.15 ft) long. Several other statues of similar weight were transported to several Ahu on the North and South coasts. It is not yet known how they transported the statues. Possibilities include employing a Y-shaped sledge with cross pieces, pulled with ropes made from the tough bark of tree and tied around the statue’s neck. Anywhere from 180 to 250 men were required for pulling, depending on the size of the Moai. Hmm….
Ancient Alien Theorists believe that The Easter Island Statues were built and placed there for a reason or that Extra Terrestrials helped them to build and move them. All Moai statues, both on the Ahu platforms and those buried all over the island have their gaze set above the horizon but the statues all around the coastline of the island actually have their heads tilted backwards towards the sky, are they waiting for the return of something? They seem to have a connection with the star system Pleiades as do some of the other great mysteries of the world including the Egyptian pyramids.
Another amazing fact is that they have found many of the Easter Island Heads actually have enormous bodies too! again making the thought of moving these enormous stone pieces quite incomprehensible.

Discovered Body of Easter Island Statue
New markings and Petroglyph’s are being discovered and the ‘Bird Man’ so prevalent in Egyptian Culture also seems to be of importance here. How is that these sympols and supposed ‘Gods’ can be so similar across the space of thousands of miles with no contact between cultures? Easter Island is also the only Pacific Island to hold historical evidence of a written language (similar to the Egyptian hieroglyphics).

Egyptian 'Bird Man'

Easter Island 'Bird Man'
Easter Island is a mystery. Were the huge statues really made out of Volcanic Ash over so many years by hundreds of people? Have we lost over time an Ancient Technology used to move tonnes of stone? Why are the bodies of the Easter Island Statues buried up to their necks in some cases? were they buried for fear of a revelation? covered after a natural disaster such asTsunami or hidden when first discovered?
All that we can say for sure is that evidence suggests our history is far longer and more incredible than the recorded 5,000 years presents.
We may not have the answers, but what is important is that we keep on asking the questions…

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