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Showing posts with label Moai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moai. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Bearded Gods of Ancient Peru - ROBERT SEPEHR


Almost all native tribes in the Western Hemisphere preserve oral traditions about the ancient appearance of a bearded god or gods who arrived, or emerged, in ancient times. Quetzalcoatl to the Aztec, Kukulkan to the Maya, but some of the most interesting versions of this widespread tradition comes from Peru, where this legendary deity is known as Kon Tiki Viracocha, as documented by numerous highly acclaimed Peruvian historians, who when considered together, give us a reasonably detailed description of the traditional hero’s physical appearance, personality, and activities among the ancestors of the Andean Indians of the Inca empire.


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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Massive Monolithic Stone Figures of Easter Island


Moai are monolithic human figures carved from rock on the Chilean Polynesian island of Easter Island. Recent excavations there are revealing new discoveries about the many massive Moai figures carved centuries ago.



















Almost all Moai have overly large heads three-eighths the size of the whole statue. The production and transportation
of the 887 statues are considered remarkable creative and physical feats. The tallest Moai erected, called Paro, was almost 33 feet high and weighed 82 tons; the heaviest erected was at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tons; and one unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 69 feet tall with a weight of about 270 tons.

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The islanders themselves tore down most of the standing Moai after their civilization broke down.