Easter Island

[palehorse]

A single local fishermen in Easter Island has more knowledge about the Rapa Nui origins than all so called "experts" combined.
My vote goes for bullscr4p!

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this new post here by Helvetic on his thread:

Posted by Helvetic (here)
Brien Foerster | Exploring the Quarry and Major Statues on Easter Island | Sept. 4, 2024

Source: hiddenincatours.com

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I2QN8M2xcPs

[Michel Leclerc]

I remember that when as a youngster, I read, and saw, in Thor Heyerdahl's book about Easter Island, how the moai were basically buried in the soil – it occurred to me as in a flash: “they were accidentally covered by a gigantic mud incursion”. No intentional burying – just Nature’s irresistible force. (And maybe, they were so big because the sculptors knew that smaller creations would just be swept away by the next mud tsunami. So they were large enough to last..).

I cannot help it but in spite of the assurances that the Göbekli Tepe and the dozens and maybe hundreds of other "tepes” presenting the same type of monumental upright T-cross slabs were intentionally buried by humans with the purpose of... (well, yes, with what purpose exactly, with what plausible purpose, dozens of astonishing sculptures in each tepe, so maybe more than one thousand, and soon enough a few thousands of them, intentionally buried for what purpose..??) this gnawing idea keeps coming back..: they were, all of them, accidentally covered by a gigantic mud tsunami, powerful enough to climb, yes, hundreds of meters up slopes and cliffs.. why not actually? when other bodies of knowledge tell us that the earth’s capsizing at a polar shift will bring about...

and then they erected them (still?), just for the beauty of them (because even if cultural creations are irredeemably destroyed, it still was worth while making them in the first place (to give purpose to Creation: Truth, Goodness and Beauty), or to placate the gods, or to allow them to be covered with the next mud tsunami so that once, much later, when mud tsunami times would draw near again, they might be discovered and recognised as warning signs..

as the moai on Rapa Nui?

[Sue (Ayt)]

A bit off topic but not really - I found it interesting that the current longevity trend, particularly among the well-healed, is "rapamycin" which was discovered on Easter Island. (thus the name rapa)

I found that there was a medical expedition sent to Easter Island for exploration in 1964 and that is when this substance was discovered. A little research suggests that it does indeed add time and health to the lifespan of all mammals tested to date, if used in the proper small amounts. Seems expensive clinics have already popped up offering this treatment.

An interesting article about the Easter Island medical research expedition can be found at the link below:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...0al.%2C%202006).

[Bill Ryan]

Bumping this thread with an interesting new article:

• https://explorersweb.com/moai-easter-island

The Giant Stone Statues of Easter Island Really Did ‘Walk’



For centuries, the giant stone statues on Easter Island, known as moai, have fascinated the world. The colossal human figures, some up to 10 meters high and weighing 86 metric tonnes, have had both scientists and the general public asking the same question: How did the Rapa Nui people move them into position?

Crafted between 1250 and 1500 CE, nearly 900 moai were carved and placed across the island. How they were constructed and transported was passed down orally through generations. When modern researchers asked the Rapa Nui people how the statues were moved, the answer was astonishingly simple: They said the moai “walked.” New research proves that this was, in fact, the case.



Easter Island has very few trees, so the idea of dragging the statues on wooden sledges or rollers seemed highly unlikely. So researchers began considering that “walking” might not be a metaphorical expression. Could the statues really be moved upright, rocking side to side in a forward motion?

A team of researchers led by Carl Lipo from Binghamton University and Terry Hunt from the University of Arizona took a creative approach in their new study. They previously showed you could move statues using an upright rocking motion.

First, get it rocking

“Once you get it moving, it isn’t hard at all,” explained Lipo. “The hard part is getting it rocking in the first place.”

Following this success, they sought to determine if the same principles applied to statues as large as the moai. Researchers used computer simulations and built a 4.35-ton replica of a moai to get their answer. By looping ropes around the statue and having 18 people rock it side to side in a zigzag motion, they successfully moved it 100 meters in just 40 minutes. The experiment showed that the statues could “walk” with surprisingly little effort.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uQV2tjhFoh8

“The physics makes sense,” said Lipo in a statement. “What we saw experimentally actually works. And as it gets bigger, it still works. All the attributes that we see about moving gigantic ones only get more and more consistent the bigger and bigger they get, because it becomes the only way you could move it.”

The secret lies in the moai’s design. Each statue has a forward lean and a wide, D-shaped base, allowing it to pivot and tip safely from side to side. More evidence for this method is the roads on Rapa Nui. At about 4.5 meters wide with a concave surface, they are perfectly suited for guiding the walking statues. Researchers think they were actually created as the moai were moved along the surface of the ground.

“Every time they’re moving a statue, it looks like they’re making a road. The road is part of moving the statue,” said Lipo.

Beyond the mechanics, this discovery highlights the ingenuity of the Rapa Nui people.

“It shows that the Rapa Nui people were incredibly smart,” said Lipo. “They figured this out. They’re doing it the way that’s consistent with the resources they have.”