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Easter Island: Ratha Gian Lioniel

Easter Island is located in the Pacific Ocean, over 2,200 miles from Chile. Once covered in lush forests, the island is now mostly barren due to overpopulation and farming practices. The island contains giant stone statues, some over 14 feet tall and weighing 14 tons, carved from volcanic rock. The statues were transported around the island beginning in 700 AD and many line the shoreline facing out to sea. They evolved from Polynesian styles to be unique to Easter Island and represented male dominance in the island's society, with the natives believing the statues contained sacred spirits.

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Easter Island: Ratha Gian Lioniel

Easter Island is located in the Pacific Ocean, over 2,200 miles from Chile. Once covered in lush forests, the island is now mostly barren due to overpopulation and farming practices. The island contains giant stone statues, some over 14 feet tall and weighing 14 tons, carved from volcanic rock. The statues were transported around the island beginning in 700 AD and many line the shoreline facing out to sea. They evolved from Polynesian styles to be unique to Easter Island and represented male dominance in the island's society, with the natives believing the statues contained sacred spirits.

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EASTER ISLAND

RATHA
GIAN
LIONIEL
MAP
OF EASTER ISLAND
HISTORY OF EASTER
ISLAND
Easter Island History – The Island Itself
Many people have found Easter Island history very fascinating!
On Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722, a Dutch sea captain named
Jacob Roggeveen landed his ship on an island known as Te Pito o
Te Henua, meaning “The Center of the World.” Captain
Roggeveen renamed the island Easter Island. Located 2200 miles
(3500 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, it is the world’s
remotest inhabited island. The island is 63 miles in size with
three extinct volcanoes; but technically speaking, the island is a
single massive volcano that rises over 10,000 feet from the
ocean floor! Once a luscious refuge for migratory birds and
wildlife, the island has now been stripped of its native forest due
to overpopulation and improper farming techniques.
Easter Island History – The New Age
Draw
New Agers are enthralled by places like Easter
Island, the pyramids, and Stonehenge. There have
even been claims of mystic energy fields and alien
influence. The mysteries of this ancient civilization
have caused theories to form and today many New
Agers consider it to be a very spiritual place.

The statues that look out to sea are a poignant reminder that man is forever searching and
seeking a place of peace and harmony. Despite whatever meaning the early builders may
have originally had for these figures, only a sense of loss and hopelessness remains.
Easter Island History –
Cultural Development

Easter Island History – Cultural Development


The cultural development on the island has been fodder for widespread
speculation. Since the island consists of volcanic rock, the early
inhabitants quarried the material into giant statues, some as tall as 14
feet, 6 inches and weighing about 14 tons. This was the reason for the
depletion of the rich forestry. The villagers used the trees to transport
these giant rocks all over the island as early as AD 700. Most of the
surviving statues are lined up all along the shoreline facing out to sea.
Their faces and bodies resemble similar statues in Polynesia but have
evolved uniquely. The statue cult symbolized male dominance and
power throughout the societal structure of the inhabitants; not only
signifying power and stature, the natives believed they were indwelled
by a sacred spirit.

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