Easter Island

Easter Island

EasterIsland is part of the Rapa Nui National Park, Easter Island is located in the State precisely in the province of Valparaiso Chile or southern Pacific Ocean, Easter Island in Polynesia called Rapa Nui, whereas in Spanish is called la de Pascua. Although the island is named Easter, but it really has nothing to do with the tradition of the Christian Easter. Easter Island's name is not actually the original name of this mysterious island, is actually on a day when Europeans set foot on this island and at the time when the celebration of Easter coincided approximately the week of Passover in 1722, when they get around the island they were surprised when find a relic of history seem implausible because in such a small island with no access to transport, without any population there are many statues scattered shaped the human face. "MAOI" is a sculpture that is widely available on the island and made the island famous, at least about 600 MAOI spread across the island. MAOIs have a height of about 9 meters and weigh thousands of pounds in the estimate. MAOI is a statue carved from stone, most of the manifold monolithic statue or carved from a single stone, even so here also there is a separate additional statues, carved from an MAOI Most vukanik soft coral found in the Rano Raraku. Although most of the MAOI here a statue of a human head or face, but here too much MAOI which has shoulders, arms and torso that have been buried for years, until now still no meaning MAOI but anyone who knows the meaning of the MAOI is called " guard the island ", so called because MAOIs are believed to represent the spirits of ancestors or as grave markers or perhaps the leading figure, to the present theory does not yet exist that could explain how the original inhabitants of this island to remove the statues are very heavy and on the move to the corners of the island , the story of this island population of the island ended tragically, according to reports circulating, purportedly on a day of food on the island began to thin out the population began to cannibalism, not only that, the nation's invasion of Peru and Bolivia to the natives of Easter Island eventually disappeared from the island them. Besides MAOI There are also Easter Island Petroglyphs are images carved in stone. About 1,000 sites with more than 4,000 Petroglyphs a catalog, designs and images are carved out of stone used to create totems, to mark territory or in use to capture an event. Easter Island also save a few stones that have called Rongorongo mysterious inscriptions and writings in this still can not solve until now.