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Tourist souvenirs archaeological sites:
Craftsmanship - checked.
Mini Black moais and other colors - checked.
I was unable to escape the tourist buses at this time.
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In 1979, Sergio Rapu Haoa and a team of archaeologists discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets were designed to hold coral eyes with either black obsidian or red scoria pupils. The discovery was made by collecting and reassembling broken fragments of white coral that were found at the various sites. Subsequently, previously uncategorized finds in the Easter Island museum were re-examined and recategorized as eye fragments. It is thought that the moʻai with carved eye sockets were probably allocated to the ahu and ceremonial sites, suggesting that a selective Rapa Nui hierarchy was attributed to the moʻai design until its demise with the advent of the religion revolving around the tangata manu.
During the restoration work carried out in 1978 by Sergio Rapu’s team, a surprising discovery was made. The Rapanui archaeologist Sonia Haoa found fragments of white coral and a disk of red scoria while excavating near a moai knocked down and half-buried in the sand. The remains found, once assembled, formed an eye about 35 cm long, which fitted perfectly to the empty orbit of the moai.
This finding marked a milestone in the knowledge that historians had about the moai. Until that time, it was thought that the eye sockets of the statues had been empty.
Anthropologist William Mulloy had already found similar eye fragments in his excavations at Vinapu on the south coast made 20 years earlier, but it was believed that they were pieces of a dish made in coral.
Since the discovery of Sonia Haoa, more remains of coral eyes have been found in other places on Easter Island. A total of 57 pieces of moai eyes were discovered during the 1978 excavation at Ahu Nau Nau, many of which still have marks of the tools used for their manufacture.
The four fragments that make up the almost complete eye are currently on display at the Sebastian Englert Anthropological Museum on Easter Island.
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Some restored moais were placed with ceramic eyes, so we have the idea of the living ancestors, watching over us.
The eye holes were only sculpted when they were in the ahus.
Music postcard:
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Philip Glass - Molly Is A Dreamer
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The most imposing platform and dominating the center of the landscape is the Ahu Nau Nau. His seven moais, again erected after the restoration made by the team of Sergio Rapu in 1978, stand out for the fineness of his features and details engraved on his back. It is one of the island’s best-preserved platforms because they remained hidden under the sand when they were felled, which protected them from weather conditions.
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- The moai of the Ahu Nau Nau, four of them with pukao (tufts or hats) that were restored in 1979.
- Two of these moai are damaged, but the others are in excellent condition.
The Bay of the Kings
Anakena, also called Hanga Ra´u o te Ariki (Bay of the Great Kings), is the place where the two great canoes of the mythical King Hotu Matua and his sister Ava Rei Pua, together with their followers, are supposed to have arrived. In the head of the bay on both sides, there are three terraces resembling temples built with enormous blocks.
In the center of the beach area is the magnificent Ahu Nau Nau, about 70 meters (230 feet) long, which has between 10 and 12 Moai (statues) associated with it. The ends of the platform are slightly elevated so that it looks like a ship. It was restored by Sergio Rapu between 1978 and 1980. Its present five Moai are the best preserved of all those still on the Island due to having spent a long time buried in the sand. They represent deceased young men of royal lineage. During the excavations, several pavements of older Ahu (ceremonial platforms) were uncovered, as well as remains of residences, an extraordinary eye from a statue made of white coral with a pupil of red scoria, and the body of a rare female Moai. Both the eye and the female Moai are on exhibit at the P. S. Englert Anthropological Museum.
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On the eastern side of the bay, there is another platform with a single statue, Ahu Ature Huki, which was re-erected in 1956 by a group of islanders under the direction of the then village mayor, Pedro Atán, at the request of the explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who was holding his first excavations on the Island. This statue is of rather crude construction and wider set than those on Ahu Nau Nau and is supposed to be on the site of where the mythical king lived.
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On the extreme left side of the beach is a third platform, Ahu Niho Pou, without statues and almost covered by the sand. On one of the stone blocks of the façade is a reproduction of a symbol of the Rongo Rongo (talking tablets) script, which, according to tradition, was associated with Anakena.
Majestically standing on top of the sand.
The left moai has a belly button.
The eyes were carved only after raised on the platforms. Eyes open and to the sky except the third moai looks straight at you.
Ahu Ature Huki is behind this ahu at the foot of the cone.
It was the first to be restored.
Four of them wearing their pukao (bun) that were restored in 1979. Two of these moai are damaged, but the others are in great condition.
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The best time to visit the Ahu Nau Nau and take pictures is in the early morning, when the sun illuminates the faces of the statues, and there are usually fewer tourists.
Going back home!
(was) At Polynesian Hall.
2,94 meters high - tuff.
Ten moai have been removed from the island and transported to locations around the world, including six out of the thirteen moai that were carved from basalt.
There is one at the museum of Viña del Mar, Chile (mainland).
It was one of a eleven statues known to reside outside Easter Island til 2014.
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"They're no rocks," said Carlos Edmunds, the president of the Council of Elders, of the 10 moai around the world, lava rock sculptures carved by the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island that have been kept in Museums for the last century and a half. "The Moai(s) embody the spirit of ancestors, almost like our grandfathers. This is what we want returned to our island – not just statues."
Carlos Edmunds is confident of securing the return of one other moai from the Chilean mainland, kept in the coastal city of Viña del Mar.
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Breaking News:
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Camilo Rapu expressed his gratitude to the people of La Serena for the intention of returning the moai on March 14, 2019, "it is a spiritual importance that the moai have for my culture, as part of my family, my ancestors, we are very happy."
Camilo Rapu also highlighted the "example" that La Serena gave by showing his willingness to return the moai, "we are grateful because La Serena's people were the first to support us in this historic demand of the Rapa Nui people, we have requested nationally and internationally all the moai distributed and the first to react and understand our demand was the town of La Serena".
In gratitude, the idea came from the Ma’u Henua Indigenous Community to carve a moai with materials from the area, which was later baptized as "La Serena Rani Tea" which means "white sky."
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The Easter Island statues were candidates for the New Seven Wonders of the World and finished eighth in the poll.
I don't know how the modern statue of Christ the Redeemer in the city of Rio won the vote against Rapa Nui. I have an idea!
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My first contact with a Moia in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) was 6 months later (May 2015).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYWtDHcj_fw
Te Hokinga Mai,
tēna koutou
Tangi ana te ngākau
i te aroha
Tū tonu ra te mana
te ihi o nga tupuna
kua wehea atu rā
Mauria mai te mauri tangata
hei oranga mo te mōrehu
tangi mōkai nei
E rapu ana i te ara tika
mo tātou katoa.
The Return,
greetings
The heart cries
in love
The power still stands
the ihi of the ancestors
it is separated
Bring the human spirit
for the survival of the survivors
this pet cries
Looking for the right path
for all of us.
The best preserved statues on the island.
Ahu Nau Nau is the most elaborate and best-preserved platform of the three that were built in Anakena. When the statues were knocked down during the clashes between the various clans of the island, they were left buried in the sand on the beach, which allowed them to be more protected from erosion than the others.
The restoration work carried out between 1978 and 1980 by the team led by the Rapanui archaeologist Sergio Rapu, restored its ancient splendor and made it one of the most attractive archaeological sites on the island.
Currently, a reconstruction that corresponds to the last historical phase of the ahu, called Nau Nau III, can be observed. It consists of a platform about 60 meters long by 12 wide. Seven statues stand on it. The first four from the left are practically intact and are crowned with a pukao, the headdress or chignon made of red volcanic scoria from the quarry of Puna Pau. These moai, along with one in Tongariki and the Ahu Ko Te Riku in Tahai, are the only ones on the island that carry a pukao.
The fifth moai is also very well preserved but lacks the pukao, the sixth is missing the head and the seventh, barely shows half a torso.
The surface of the statues, which are fairly uniform and stylized, is very polished and the features of the face, nose, ears and hands are finely carved and are somewhat more pointed than in other images. Even the pukao are very well worked, highlighting that of the first statue with an unusual conical shape.
On the right side of the ahu, there are remains of other pukao and a moai lying face up, quite eroded. The latter has the eye sockets uncut, so it is possible that it was never erected on the platform. Further to the right, next to the remains of the foundations of a boat-house or hare paenga, there is another head of rounded shape on the ground, belonging to an older statue. From the remains found, it is believed that some 12 moai were part of the platform at some point, although there probably never were more than eight on the ahu at the same time.
Music postcard:
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Tindersticks - The Organist Entertains
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Miał to być scrap w stylu industrialnym, nawet się przez godzinę inspirowałam do stworzenia takowego słuchając rapu (sic!) No i wyszło.......... :D
Wersja po fachowych poprawkach Guni i pełnych żywych emocji uwagach Jaszki:)
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Warriors of the Rapu highlands would gather to bathe in the sacred waters of the Jor F'da (Place of Purity) before battle to cleanse their souls and focus their senses.
6x6 microscale fantasy locations.
this is the tower in pentlow,which is one of our neighbouring villages it is 90ft octaganal folly built by Edward bull in 1859. (more info here)
you can see this tower for miles around, i have visions of it being Rapunzels tower or something from a fairy tale, www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Rapu.shtml
so the other day i crept into the grounds and took a few pics so i could turn it into my fantasy, luckily i didnt get caught by the witch or anyone else !! this one was taken afterwards from a distance, I HDR,d it and turned it to night, part 2 coming up shortly
The ritual platform Ahu Nao Nao, on which there are seven statues of moai, is the largest in the area of Anakena beach on the Northern coast of the island. Its excavations and subsequent reconstruction were carried out first by the Norwegian archaeological expedition of 1955-56 under the leadership of Thor Heyerdahl, and then continued in the 70s of the last century by a group of archaeologists led by Sergio Rapu Haoa.
Ритуальная платформа Аху Нао Нао, на которой находятся семь статуй моаи, является самой крупной в районе пляжа Анакена на северном побережье острова. Её раскопки и последующая реконструкция были осуществлены вначале норвежской археологической экспедицией 1955-56 годов под руководством Тура Хейердала, а затем продолжены в 70-х годах прошлого века группой археологов под руководством Серхио Рапу Хаоа.
“Elegant Rapu”
12×9 charcoal/Prismacolor pencil sketch of a Kathiawari mare named Rapunzel, Rapu for short.
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Reference photo and owner of Rapu courtesy of Chhatrpalsinh Jadeja
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Ahu Nau Nau is symbolically one of the most important ahus on Easter Island as it is located on the beautiful beach of Anakena, the place where, as the story goes, King Hotu Matu’a first landed with his entourage to populate the island.
The ahu was restored in 1978 by a team led by Sergio Rapu, the island’s first professional archaeologist. It was also here that the white coral and red scoria eye was found, which is currently exhibited in the museum and has served in the recreation of the true image of the upright moai statues on their altars.
near Cabao MRT sta. Manila.
i felt they are all family, no matter blood connect or not. another family treated me Red Horse, Rapu Rapu, Karaoke and even taxi fee to hotel, though his wife, thier mother passed away yesterday.
they said here is San Marten de Poris, Barangai. sweet place
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Teh'ru rampu no tsumiki → The Blocka Brick of Tail Lights
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Confinement jour 28 / Lockdown Day 28
En direct des studios de confinement
Rapa-Nui / Ile de Pâques / Easter Island
A gauche : Ile de Pâques au balcon (aout 2007) / A droite : Jour de Pâques au salon (avril 2020)
Ceux qui ont déjà visité le musée du Quai Branly à Paris se souviennent certainement de l’installation "The River" de Charles Sandison, qui projette, sur le sol obscur de la montée d’accès sinueuse au musée, une rivière lumineuse de milliers de mots exotiques, entrelacés de manière aléatoire.
Le simple mot de "Pâques" a déclenché hier chez moi ce flux continu des mots voyageurs qui font rêver, et m’a progressivement re-transporté pendant quelques minutes à 14000 kilomètres de Paris, à vol de sterne ou de goélette, sur une terre "isolée du monde, aride, volcanique et battue par les vents" (la formule usuelle et stéréotypée des agences de voyage, dont l’imagination littéraire n’a, hélas, jamais été la principale qualité marketing !)
…Rapa-Nui, Pacifique, île, isolement, océans, corail, Moai, statuettes kava-kava, Easter Island, mégalithes, Hangaroa, grandes explorations, navires, Thor Heyerdahl, Alfred Métraux, solitude, homme oiseau, Hoa Hakananai'a, Orongo, Jared Diamon, La Pérouse, Pierre Loti, Effondrement, Rano-Raraku, Kon-Tiki, Rano Kau, Jakob Roggeveen, oiseaux de mer, Anakena, moutons, les yeux qui regardent les étoiles, colonisation, Tongariki, guerre, négriers, déportation, Moto Nui, Chili, Eugène Eyraud, catastrophe écologique, cratères, maison-bateau, grottes, chevaux, remiro, Ahu, Make-Make, pukao, aku-aku, Sergio Rapu, Puna Pao, 5 avril 1722, Tangata Manu, James Cook, nombril du monde, volcan, obsidienne, tablettes rongorongo, Catherine et Michel Orliac, toromiro,…
Faute de traces écrites compréhensibles (l’énigmatique écriture pascuane rongorongo attend encore son déchiffreur) et par la faute de l’extermination et de la déportation sauvage des Pascuans par les Chiliens au dix-neuvième siècle, la riche, mystérieuse, et dramatique histoire de Rapa-Nui, depuis son premier peuplement par de fantastiques explorateurs polynésiens en pirogues, jusqu’aux drames de la découverte, des pillages et de la colonisation, n’a pas encore révélé tous ses secrets…
Et l'intéressante théorie de l’effondrement de Jared Diamond, brandie comme un flambeau par les écologistes à une époque encore récente, semble progressivement elle-même "s’effondrer", au vu des dernières découvertes scientifiques.
On ne peut bien comprendre un pays que lorsqu’on y passe suffisamment de temps, pas à y bronzer idiot en slip, au pied de son bungalow, face à la mer et à un Mojito bien frais, servi avec une paille et des glaçons par un autochtone souriant et occidentalisé, comme le font la majorité des "voyageurs", mais en l’observant attentivement, sans idéologie ni idée préconçue (pléonasme ?) et en essayant progressivement d’en disséquer les fondations, la culture et les coutumes des peuples (ce qui prend souvent des années, un peu de lecture, et toujours plusieurs voyages)
"Nous ne pouvons connaitre le goût de l’ananas par le récit des voyageurs" (Leibniz)
En émergeant doucement de mon rêve éveillé de confiné, m’est alors venu à l'esprit une pensée effrayante :
Et si, dans quelques décennies, le voyage nous était définitivement interdit ?
Par un prédicateur écologiste, hystérique, intégriste et liberticide, qui aurait pris le pouvoir démocratiquement ? (extrême-gauche)
Par la peur de l’autre et de la contamination virale et culturelle, et le repli sur soi de chaque pays, ethnie, tribu ou communauté ? (extrême-droite)
Par le triomphe final de la philosophie isolationniste écologique, et son retour rapide aux villages néolithiques autosuffisants ? (extrême-connerie)
Au Moyen Age, la terre était plate… A la Renaissance (la bien nommée) elle est enfin devenue sphérique, de 40000 kilomètres de circonférence, et ceci jusqu’à nos jours, et c’est pour cela qu’on l’aime ! Lorsqu’elle sera à nouveau plate, réduite à une surface circulaire de deux kilomètres de diamètre (ce qu’elle est aujourd’hui, de manière temporaire, pour la plupart d'entre nous) il vaudra mieux, ce jour-là, se suicider collectivement, plutôt que de choper le mortifère isolationovirus de la solitude éternelle !
P.S. technique : Les exifs qui apparaissent sont ceux de la photo de droite, prise hier. La photo de gauche, des fascinantes carrières de Rano-Raraku (un des plus formidables coups de poing dans la g... de mes années voyageuses, comme une téléportation sur une autre planète), est une vieille diapositive scannée. (Nikon F100 + Ektachrome 200)
Bon confinement à tous et "Take care !"
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