The giant stone statues on Easter Island Bashny.Net

Easter Island is the most secluded corners of our planet, is a small piece of land, which is located in the Pacific Ocean and away from the nearest inhabited island Pitkeyr 2,600 km.




Natives call their island of Rapa Nui. And the whole world knows the name he received because it was discovered on Easter Sunday in 1722 the Dutchman Jacob Roggevenom.

Camaya famous mystery of Easter Island, which for hundreds of years, researchers are trying to unravel - the giant stone statues, the moai. These mysterious monoliths were carved from fossilized volcanic ash.



A total of 887 statues of the island, 397 of them are located near the Rano Raraku volcano, the crater of which were made and all other moai.

There are many unfinished statues found and even more abandoned chopping that suggests the idea of ​​a sudden cessation of work due to some major cataclysm.

On the island there are two types of moai. "Giants" of 10 meters tall, hatless, farts, they are mostly on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano, up to his neck in sedimentary rocks.



And the four-meter "dwarfs", hoisted on a pedestal-ahu along the ocean coast, in the original headdresses. They look younger than his 10-meter family, and their faces are not as long.



Then begin the theory and legends. One of the surviving legends says that once the island was ruled by people with long earlobes. They were subordinate to korotkouhie. At this time in full moai were built and ruthlessly cut down palm forest ecology of the island is not been brought to this sorry state. The population grew, there was nothing, not even enough wood for the manufacture of boats began cannibalism ... In short, korotkouhie broke and overthrew the elite.



Most scientists agree with this version of AD sunset mysterious creators of the giant stone statues. Some even complement the overall picture detail. Thus, it is believed that korotkouhimi commoners came from Polynesia, and long-eared elite - travelers from South America, who arrived on the island somewhere in the 800, in some way for many years to seize power over the natives.



We found a scientific explanation and many abandoned hacking in the crater of Rano Raraku. Experts believe that it will work tools. And as to produce a new stone tools much easier to sharpen than the old, ancient masters be disposed of his ax. Here and collect them for hundreds of years considerably.



A unfinished statues were such because of cutting down their relatively soft volcanic tuff, the wizard ran into a solid rock, to overcome that they could not afford.



But what brought the stone giants in the right place? Locals say anything definite on this issue can not, moreover, that the statue went themselves. In their language even has a word that means slow movement without legs. But what they mean is unknown.



And then there was the theory of motion of vertical rotation waddle. So even handle heavy drums and cylinders. Successfully conducted field tests of this method all in places: with the help of ropes and wooden levers short moai confident "step" forward.



But there was one, the most fantastic version. Its adherents believe that Easter Island was once part of the legendary Lemuria and with it disappeared into the depths of the ocean.



Many centuries later, the result of some natural disasters is an ancient volcano with a 10-meter moai on its slopes again appeared above water. And the first settlers of the island, trying to reconstruct the gigantic idols, gone up to his neck in the sedimentary rocks, began to cut the 4-meter «dwarfs»





Source: trasyy.livejournal.com