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moai figureSmall wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to represent ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two types: moai kavakava (male), with a beaklike nose and goatee and occasionally an animal or a human figure incised on the head; and moai paepae (female), which have a flat, relieflike quality and large eyes. They were sometimes used for fertility rites but more often for harvest celebrations, when the first picking of fruits was heaped around them as offerings. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| the map puts Rome at the center Isla de Pascua, Crazy moai statues, alien myths, Chile the only developed writing in Oceania. The clearly written text is accompanied by breathtaking color photographs that show the beauty of the island and its rich collection of archaeological features--not just the moai, but ahu (the altars the moai rest upon), petroglyphs, and an as-yet-undeciphered language called rongorongo. 25) Pearson's reading allows him to argue that Maria "gulls him with a first-person pronoun - moai = moe = moy = I myself. |
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