The Myth of the Moai “Who Look toward the Sea”
This concept of megalithic statues looking at the horizon is contradicted by scientific knowledge and the idea that has always existed within the Rapa Nui people.
Te Ara o te Ao
The rapanui denominates Ao to a special oar that is used like badge of the control. This trail follows the same route that was used more or less 150 years ago to reach the ceremonial village in Orongo.
A Choir for Rapa Nui
Last December, the newly-formed Choir of Isla de Pascua offered its first presentations in the parish church and in the Hotel Hanga Roa.
Talismans of Rapa Nui
Easter Island is considered to be an open-air museum where the most important symbols are the nearly one thousand giant states made from volcanic rock (Moai) and the petroglyphs which survive as testimony to the rich culture of the ancient people.
Topa Inga o Te tu a Poi
The Tu a Poi were a tribe which lived in the sea on a giant mother canoe. Some nights they would come near the Island in small reed boats to look for sweet potatoes, taro and, especially, human flesh.
Emilia del Carmen Paoa Cardinali
Emilia was part of the group of the first 12 Rapanui students who left to study on the continent in 1955.
Avareipua Ninoska Cuadros Hucke
Ninoska tells the story of how her mother went aboard a ship to join her boyfriend in Puerto Rico, but when she arrived in Valparaiso on the continent, she was met with the news that he had died in Vietnam.
Patricia Lillo Chinchilla
Patricia Lillo, daughter of Eusebio Lillo, thus a descendant of the composer of the Chilean national anthem, and Elba Chinchilla, has lived for more than 50 years on Easter Island, as a result of her older sister Elvira marring Marcelo Pont-Hill, a Rapanui, in Santiago in 1960.
Paulina LLano Tepano
Paulina Llano -Tepano, the daughter of an Easter Islander, was born on Easter Island but was adopted and raised by the Chilean family of her father, Augusto Llano, and his wife, Iris Vercelli.
Terra Australis – Davis Island – Rapa Nui
The first Contact with Rapa Nui recorded sighting was in 1722 by three ships of the Dutch West Indian Company under the command of Jacob Roggeveen.
The Great Ocean Predators of Rapa Nui
The great predators of the sea, such as sharks, tunas, swordfish, bonitos and others which are called “top predators”, are all those species which are found at the top of a food chain or trophic level.
The Eye of the Moai
From where did the coral eyes that we see today on replicas of statues and on the Moai at Ahu Ko Te Riku in Tahai come?