by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 31, 2019 | Polynesian culture, Rapa Nui Culture
CREMATION IN RAPA NUI by Cristian Moreno Pakarati – Historiador / Historian Cremation is a funerary or post-funerary ritual which allows a cadaver to be disposed of cleanly. The practice dates back at least 20 thousand years among the Australian aborigines and...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Polynesian culture
The Origins of the Polynesians Tonga & Samoa, Cuna y Núcleo de la Expansión Polinésica / Crib and Nucleus of Polynesian Expansion Large migratory waves of Austronesian peoples reached Near Oceania around 3,500 years ago, causing a major cultural impact in the...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Polynesian culture, Rapa Nui Culture
The Origin of the Polynesian Peoples La Cultura Lapita · The Lapita Culture Among the rare archaeological certainties that we have on the ancient Polynesian peoples, one undisputed fact stands out: The Polynesian people descend from the creators of a complex culture,...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Polynesian culture
Sex and Divinity in Polynesia The real understanding of Polynesian culture has been very slow. Stories, drawings and even photographs of explorers, navigators, missionaries and other visitors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been assumed as real and...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 12, 2019 | Polynesian culture
Sacred Trees in Polynesia by Annette Kühlem Trees in French Polynesia are believed to be a direct gift from the gods. Early creation myths tell us how the god Ta’aroa took on the shape of a bird and flew over the newly emerged islands shaking his feathers. These...
