Also known as Rapa Nui, this Chilean island is known for strange statues & rongo-rongo hieroglyphs
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Easter Island: land of mystery (1) - Exploring Theosophy (David Pratt)  Katherine Routledge, The Mystery of Easter Island, 1919. Fig. ... midway between Chile and Tahiti, Easter Island  or Rapa Nui  is one of the most ... Another enigma is the island's still-undeciphered hieroglyphic script, known as Rongorongo ... Huge stone blocks and 15 statues with an average weight of more than 40 tons...
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OCCULT KNOWLEDGE ::. MYSTERIES | MOAIS & EASTER ISLAND ...  Easter Island is known for its Moai statues - giant stone heads that no one knows ... The Rongorongo, the local language in written - also intrigue scholars. ... seems to have suddenly arisen in recent times, in the 1700s -what is very strange. ... "In every house find tablets of wood and other objects with hieroglyphic writing.
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Rongorongo was used until the 1860s, after which knowledge of the ...  While many people know of the Moai of Easter Island, not that many people know ... 'Rongorongo' is the hieroglyphic written language of the region's earlier inhabitants. Rongorongo is strange in that no other neighbouring oceanic people used a ... a few try to write their own language, Rapanui, also with the Latin alphabet.
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Rongorongo - Wikipedia  Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears ... There are also a few petroglyphs which may include short rongorongo ..... wound around a small wooden board covered in hieroglyphic writing. ..... "Te Pito te Henua, known as Rapa Nui, commonly called Easter Island".
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Easter Island, Moai, Rongorongo - Crystalinks  Easter Island is roughly midway between Chile and Tahiti. ... The island, also called Rapa Nui, first settled around A.D. 1200, is famous for its more than 1,000...
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Easter Island -- World Heritage Site -- National Geographic  Get facts, photos, and travel tips for Rapa Nui National Park (Easter Island), a World Heritage site in Chile, from National Geographic. ... Giant moai statues dot the grassy flanks of an extinct volcano on Easter Island. ... The stone blocks, carved into head-and-torso figures, average 13 feet (4 meters) tall and 14 tons. The effort...
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The Mystery of Easter Island - WORLD PROPERTY JOURNAL ...  Mar 1, 2013 ... Easter Island may be the most mysterious place on Earth. Lying 2300 miles away from Chile, the country that governs the island, it's the most...
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Galpagos Islands - Wikipedia  The Galpagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in ... Capital city, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno .... Baltra (South Seymour) Island  Also known as South Seymour, Baltra is a small flat island ... with the most interesting human history, and one of the earliest to be inhabited.
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Pin by Aaron West on Oddities of an odd nature. | Pinterest  Constantly Changes, Weird Animal, Marine Animals, Spoon Worms, Arthur Anker, Small ... Growing Stones - An Incredible Geological Phenomena - Trovants are .... An extremely rare narwhal skull with double tusks. ..... the rock, whose given name translates as "strange rock" in Finnish, has wound up in such a perplexing
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Easter Island (Rapa Nui)Rano Raraku | World Monuments Fund  The archaeological sites of Easter Island are protected within Rapa Nui National Park, an open-air museum that has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since...
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Aloha, Cryptozoology: Mythic and Mystery Beasts of Hawaii | Fate ...  Oct 18, 2014 ... Whereas other states of the U.S.A. have attracted considerable cryptozoological ... Interestingly, legends of giant lizard-like reptiles are common throughout ... Hawaii's most famous mythical beings are the menehune benevolent, magical, .... The Hawaiian islands are home to a remarkable family of small,...
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Video: Easter Island: meeting the moai - Telegraph  Sep 8, 2010 ... The monumental, volcanic rock statue I was looking at is one of ... Easter Island or Rapa Nui, also known as Te Pito o Te Henua  "the navel of the world". ... along the very road on which the giant moai were once dragged or...
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Easter Island - Land of Mystery - 01  1.1 A stone giant at Rano Raraku continues its solemn watch, silent and inscrutable. ... It is a land of mystery, known in former times as Te Pito o te Henua, 'the navel of the world'. Fig. ... Work at the quarry seems to have stopped suddenly, for dozens of statues ... They named it Easter Island as they landed on Easter Sunday.
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15 Things You Should Know About 'Venus de Milo' | Mental Floss  Jul 21, 2015 ... She's named in part for where she was discovered. ... within the ruins of an ancient city on the island of Milos (formerly known as Melos). ... Some have suggested the sculpture is not Aphrodite/Venus, but Amphitrite, the sea ... Their absence has also been an accidental invitation to the world to imagine how...
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The legend of Maui tells the story of a young man who ... - Pinterest  Mar 25, 2012 ... Hina Hine (Polynesian) - This Hawaiian Goddesses name means ... In her myths it is said that she grew tired of working for her brother and fled to the moon to live in peace. ..... Aka: Trickster "Huehuecoyotl- Aztec myth: the god of dance, song, ...... Maui * The Valley Island in Hawaii #travel #poster 1950s.
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Easter Island: stones, history - Lost civilizations  Easter Island we think of of huge stone carved figures - Easter Island Stones (or ... The Moai are seen all over the island, and in different shapes, sizes, and stages .... why are you guys not commenting on the easter island heads and turning this ... Akivi site, you'll notice the commanding view it takes on the landscape, I find it...
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Easter Island - Sacred Sites  Easter Island, Chile, is famous for its tall stone statues called Moai. ... The oldest known traditional name of the island is Te Pito o Te Henua, meaning 'The .... Island is also known as Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua, meaning 'The Navel of the World', and...
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Easter Island facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Easter Island at Encyclopedia.com. ... that the island could have been settled from South America, although linguistic and .... Today, the Easter Islanders are governed by Chile, with a Chilean governor, .... But Chile, on the closest continent to Easter Island, lies 2,300 miles to the east.
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Rapa Nui language - Wikipedia  Rapa Nui or Rapanui also known as Pascuan /pskjun/, or Pascuense, is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken on the island of Rapa Nui, also known as ... Census data do not exist on the primary known and spoken languages among ... also speak Spanish; most Rapa Nui children now grow up speaking Spanish...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Feb 28, 2012 ... Los N-words Island is located in the Admiralty Islands. Reply  ... $200 ~ The name of this metal comes from molebdos, the Greek word for lead
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Easter Island, Moai, Rongorongo - Crystalinks  Easter Island is roughly midway between Chile and Tahiti. ..... When we think of Eastern Island we think of of huge stone carved figures, monoliths, that dot the...