by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 13, 2019 | History
By Cristian Moreno Pakarati – Historiador The Moai (statue) staring out to sea is one of the most evocative literary images of the Pacific isles. The idea that these statues were the guardians of a remote island and that their colossal size was meant to frighten...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 13, 2019 | Legends
Symbols in Polynesian art are often mysterious, especially since there are different interpretations from island to island. Easter Island is considered to be an open-air museum where the most important symbols are the nearly one thousand giant states made from...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 13, 2019 | Legends
Legend of the Anthropophages La Bajada de los Tu a Poi In the past, there were places all around the Island where people could descend to the sea with their reed boats to go fishing. When they returned, the fishermen would take their boats out of the ocean so that...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 12, 2019 | History
Tangata Manu,The Bird-Man and its Origins by Cristian Moreno Pakarati / Historiador The origins of the rituals celebrated at Orongo, as a religious cult connected to the migratory sea birds which arrived at the islets in front of the cliffs, have still not been well...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Apr 12, 2019 | Legends
Vai a Heva (“water of Heva”) is the name of the monumental sculpture of a face whose open mouth is a natural cavity which collects rainwater, located in a rocky area of the Poike peninsula. Its name comes from an old tale about the teachers of Rongo-rongo (writing...
