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The picture bellow is of a now long lost ancient language belonging to the islanders people.
Some people believe that these tablets hold the secrets to the history and origins of the natives. Others believe they are descriptions on how the natives made the Maoi. This is an example of ancient wisdom as these tablets are believed to hold forgotten knowledge and secrets of the island people.

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This site talks about an ancient ritual that the islander would do which was to collecting a bird egg for their god. This is an example of ideology because it was their belief in their god that drove them to swim across shark filled waters to reach a small island to collect the bird eggs from. The winner would then become leader of the island.

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These are pictures of one of Easter Island's most amazing rituals, the Birdman (also called Tangata Manu). The Birdman was recognized as an important figure in Easter Island history, as it was...

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This video talks about a cave that had been found on the island that has carvings, the speaker claims that theses must be alien faces.
This is an example of patternicity because these ancient carvings could be of anything. It's the video author that claims it must be alien faces because there is what seems to be big eyes on the carvings but in reality we don't know what the figures could be.

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The picture below is of a Moai that has been buried underground for what appears to be a long time.
Only certain of the Moai appear to have been buried or possibly sank into the ground. This is an example of unexplained because we do not know why over half of the body has been buried. Some of these buried parts of the statue also have well made carvings and details which raises the question why would such nice work be buried.

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The picture belows show the Easter Island statues with what looks like some kind of red hat; others believe that these red hat where the red colored hair of the natives royalty tied in a bun.
Based on some oral traditions, it is said that the royalty of the island had red hair and pale skin. This would be an example of unexplained and ideology. The ideology aspect is because certain believe this without any other evidence other than the oral tradition. The unexplained part would be because it's hard to explain how pale skinned, red haired individuals where on the island when the dominant population of the island was believed to be a mixture of Polynesians and South Americans which do not commonly have these features.

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This video goes over numerous different techniques that the natives of the island might of used to move the 15 ton statues around the island.
Based on oral traditions it is said that the statues "walked" when they moved to their locations. This as caused people to believe that the statues were moved standing up. One of the moving techniques did indeed manage to move the statue in a standing position. Ideology is the reason of belief in this case; we believe that the statues where moved standing up due to oral traditions. Oral traditions are not reliable sources of information because they slowly change over time and/or completely lose there meaning. We have no real prof to show that the statues where moved in this way even if it was possible.

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Walking with Giants: How the Easter Island Moai Moved | Nat Geo Live

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This website talks about the Moai(statues) including some of their orientation in regards to the equinox and the great amount of work put into the countless statues.
Each of the 900 statues stand at about 4 meters tall have all be carved from volcanic rock found on the island. The general theory is that the status where carved by the inhabitants for religious reasons, the specific reasons being mainly unknown. This is an example of simplicity because we are simply saying that the islander must of build the statues for religious religions when the real reason could of been something like a big calendar. After all some of the statues are astrological lined up with certain celestial bodies during certain times of the year. What we see of them now is hundreds of year old statues who's purposes have been long forgotten.

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The enigmas surrounding the moai, Easter Island's fleet of large stone figures, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here: How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,000 years ago? And how did the moai end up on Easter Island?

Carved from stone, the nearly 900 human figures are sprinkled along the flanks of the island's extinct volcanoes. The figures average 13 feet tall and weigh 14 tons and appear to have been chiseled from the soft volcanic tuff found in the Rano Raraku quarry. There, more than 400 statues are still in various states of construction, with some completed figures awaiting transportation to their intended resting place.

The reasons for carving the moai are mysterious, though they were likely sculpted for religious or ritual reasons. It's also not exactly clear what happened to the stone-crafting Rapa Nui, but a leading theory suggests their civilization succumbed to an environmental disaster of their own making ... which is something that probably could have been prevented had ancient aliens bestowed their infinite wisdom upon the culture

Discovered in the South Pacific Ocean on the Easter Sunday of 1722, Easter Island is widely known today for the very large freestanding megalithic Moai watching over the island. Nearly 900 unique Moai have been carbon dated estimating their creation between 1100 and 1680 with an estimation of a year or more of work per statue. Each Moai is said to resemble the deceased head of an ancestor. Many of the of the massive 80 ton statues were chiseled from volcanic ash, remnant from the extinct volcanoes that originally formed the island. Methods of moving and lifting the Moai into place have remained an unexplained, controversial mystery. The Moai are astronomically aligned precisely, with seven, 18 ton statues pointing directly to the sun setting during the equinox, named for the Seven Sisters or Pleiades. Polynesians who inhabited Easter Island estimated to be between 300 and 800CE chose a representative of MakeMake, the great creator, titled the Bird Man each year to live in seclusion. Effigies of the Bird Man resemble a human with a bird head and wings distinctly similar to depictions found in the ancient Egyptian culture.

The massive carved rock head figures known as "moai" are the primary attraction of this small island.

The heads were literally cut out of hard volcanic rock and were moved many kilometers to where they are located now. Even with modern technology it would be very difficult to produce such a large number of smoothly statues and also transport them to long distances.

The massive heads differ in design, some statues even have hats, others have complex eyes (built from multiple pieces of rocks), others have hands... The locals who carved them certainly had a good sense for art and didn't just hurry to build them.

There are several Moai groups that look especially interesting. For example the ones on the side of the Rano Raraku Volcano, where you'll find a picturesque landscape with lots of stone heads spread across it...

Easter Island Quest tries to answer to questions about the construction and transportation of the moai, not only looking at the technical part, but also at the possible reasons why they were erected.

Several hundreds of years ago a group of Polynesians have set their feet on the shores of this island.

According to the traditions, they were led by Hotu Matu'a, sort of a tribal leader ("Ariki Mau"), some sources go further and even call him "The First King of Rapa Nui".

Legends say that the settlers have arrived in 2 boats and numbered several hundreds of people.

Scientists have determined that the island was inhabited

The history of Easter Island is very rich and unfortunately tragic too. Initially having had a population of several hundred people, there was prosperity and joy, but overpopulation has lead to deforestation, starvation and therefore unrest.

Almost all trees were cut down and it became impossible for anyone to leave the island.

Major conflicts erupted, the many of the wonderful Moai statues were vandalized, even cannibalism appeared and was present for a long time, even after the arrival of colonists.

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The enigmas surrounding the moai, Easter Island's fleet of large stone figures, pretty much follow the same narrative as the other sites described here: How in the world did the Rapa Nui make these figures more than 1,000 years ago? And how did the moai end up on Easter Island?

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This website talks about the striking similarities of different structures and statues on easter island with structures and statues from other places in the world.
It's believed that the inhabitants of Easter Island are a combination of Polynesians and South Americans. If that is the case then it would explain the similarities of statues and constructions found on Easter Island to statues and constructions in South America and Polynesians islands. There have also be similarities made in between certain Japaneses structures and Egyptian. This would be an example of perception/observation due to the fact that just because the statues might seem to bear resemblance to other statues found in other civilizations does not mean that there are any real direct connections.

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This video talks about how certain of the walls present on Easter Island were put together with unexplained accuracy.
Many of the walls put together with no gaps in between. This would be an example of ancient wisdom because it's hard to explain how the inhabitants placed such huge stones/bricks with the accuracy that they did. We simply do not know how they laid the bricks with no space in between them thus we assume they had some kind of lost technology.

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Easter Island: Lost Ancient High Technology Evidence Part 1

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Post #1 World Mysteries Assignment 2: Easter Island 

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Post #1 World Mysteries Assignment 2: Easter Island 

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