Easter Island heads have bodies
The Easter Island Statue Project (EISP) is a private research program and archive created by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Principle Investigator and EISP founder and director, with Cristián Arévalo Pakarati, Rapa Nui artist and co-director of EISP. The profound and immediate need for conservation actions on the moai became apparent over the course of more than 20 years of subjective observation and field experience acquired by us during our island-wide archaeological survey, which was conducted in association with our Chilean and Rapa Nui colleagues.
The Easter Island Statue Project office is located at 225 Arizona Avenue, Studio 500, Santa Monica, CA, 90401. The EISP field office is located at the Mana Gallery, Petero Atamu s/n, Hanga Roa, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile.
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wild stuff..so did they bury them complete with petroglyphs..(who would see them if they are buried?) or was it covered by something else that happened?
401
It’s the way they are positioned with the hands and eyes half closed, has any one meditated whilst there? I would love to know if so and how it went. Great site by the way, i love new and insightful things to dwell on.
your welcome john..we like to awaken..sometimes its controversial..sometimes its just enlightening
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i’m pretty sure that they became buried naturally over a period of time, like how fossils become buried.
thanks josie..point taken..
I’m thinking the other way around : the people that did that dug holes so that it would be easier to them to put the statues in upright position.
good theory
is it me or does that look like alien eyes where what looks like thumbs over the belly?
someone else said that..they do look similar..
I’m surprised that everyone is surprised by this. If these statues were just above-ground heads, they’d have been knocked over by earthquakes and/or tsunami. In course of fact, some of the head-only moai seen on pedestals had done just that and were moved far inland by a tsunami. They’ve been replaced to the pedestals in recent years, paid in large part by the Japanese. Also, the region is very seismically active as evidenced by the 2009 quake in Chile. Some of the strongest recorded quakes in modern history have struck in the region as it is part of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire.
Another clue that there were likely bodies below ground is the MASSIVE full-body carving still in the quarry which is some 70ft / 22 meters in length. I say “length” as it is in a prone position.
I was there July 2010 for the total solar eclipse, which was itself spectacular, but enhanced by the gorgeous setting. We stayed on the island for several days afterward and toured around. A true “island paradise”. What our guide explained to us is that the moai are the equivalent to “family portraits”. They were set up to look over ones crops to bless them. The power comes from their eyes. So when rival tribes wanted to ruin your chances of good crops, they would knock them over, face-down, to prevent the eyes from bestowing power/energy.
A great book to read is James Grant Peterkin’s “A Companion To Easter Island”. Fascinating book with not only what to see and do while there, but also a good section on the history of the island, its peoples, and the moai. I learned more from the tours and the book in one week than I learned about Rapa Nui in my entire life. The Bird Man culture that followed the abandoning of the moai culture is equally fascinating.
I posted a video of the approaching eclipse on YouTube. You can view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mQSgxseFo Sorry for the audio, but it was quite windy that day. And here is a still photo of the eclipse and a moai I took that day: http://365project.org/beteljooz/moments-in-time/2011-04-29
Cheers
Thanks for your input beteljooz! Very informative, the eclipse would have been a wonderful experience.
Hi, well i just want to correct you on one fact: Easter Island is NOT part of the ring of fire. Its located smack in the middle between tahiti and chile, and the ring (as the name suggests) is curcular around the Pacific Ocean. I agree with Tsunamis, but the Earthquakes are rather from volcanic activity on the island. They have 3 or 4 volcanoes there, but mostly they are dormant. As you will have read the statues come from one of the old craters.
Hi, one other thing your mistaken of. All the statues have bodies. None of them are just heads. If you look up “ahu” on google you will see hundreds of pictures of full body statues on platforms. The ones you are talking about that were hit by a tsunami are also full bodies and not just “heads”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahu_Tongariki
the point is people didnt know they had bodies..and now they do..
Well it depends what you mean by “people”. The native population, which settled the island in 800 AD and built the statues, always knew they had bodies.
Katherine Rutledge one of the first scientists to explore the island in the early 1900′s saw they had bodies. If you look at the top picture, the guy in the blue is Thor Heyerdahl, who excavated this statue in the 1950s.
The 70,000 tourists that visit it every year definitely know they have bodies after they leave the island.
So really, most of the people that have ever cared to learn a thing about the island have always known that they had bodies… just saying.
i am not arguing with you..i agree..what i am saying is this post gets 3-4000 views a day.. because many many people didnt think they had bodies..
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I would look into when that area had issues such as tsunamis and earthquakes and try to verify with other archeological finds. Have any pottery, weapons or indications of civilization been discovered at the base of the heads? that should give a fair indication of when people lived on the island and possibly what caused their death. i would be willing to bet that when you reach the base of the heads you will locate the other remnants of the people who lived there.
good points mate..thanks
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They could have been buried waiting for someone to dig them out. Kind of the same way we have time capsules these days.
Someone said that if they we’re only heads they would long since been knocked over and i believe the question was why the body was underground. Well… So they wouldnt be knocked over perhaps? Smart, smart easter people.
So why bother carving a lower body and not just leave it as a lump.
Why bother carving huge heads out of stone that just stand around without purpose? Because they are artists ofcourse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai says they were mostly toppled during internecine conflicts between 1722 and 1868; some were buried prior to this (perhaps because they had also been toppled in previous conflicts?).
The reference, 13 John Flenley and Paul G. Bahn (2003). The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge. p. 150. ISBN 0192803409, states that there is no oral history of the Rapanui of any disasters causing the moai to fall, and that a 6.3 earthquake in 1987 did not disturb any of the re-erected moai. Also, there’s evidence that this happened over a very long time. In some cases the toppled statues were not merely toppled, but also defaced. There were also moai intentionally toppled into excavated holes for partial or complete burial. Reference has a link to the book where one can read it.
I always thought it was some religious reason, sky/earth; father/mother sort of thing. So much for my theory.
I would have thought religious to.
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surprisingly did not know that the heads of Easter Island moai had body, thanks for the info, I follow closely.
They need to break open the Easter Island Heads ASAP, my theory is that the villagers bow downed to the statues every night praying that Full house would never get aired in the future, The villagers have enchanted scrotum’s (+1000 stamina to be exact) that they sacrificed to the Easter Head. During a random pick throughout the year, the Easter Head woke up very excited to receive over 50 enchanted scrotum sacs sitting in the roof of his mouth. The stamina filled scrotum sacs transferred the energy to the Easter head only to backfire and overdose him into a coma stone state. The only person that can wake this Statue is legendary Bob Saget.
right..
LOL!!!!!!!!
wait what? ahhhhhhhahaha
enchanted scrotums… !!!!
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i have no friends
Perhaps you have just not met enough people, ben. Alternatively, you could expand your definition of friend to include animals because they do make wonderful friends. I should know, I have 23 cats.
LOL
i have 1 cat but shes cool..i like dogs more
Just noticed, the statue is spelling out “vagina” in sign language. With the hands located underneath a slightly distended belly and being on Easter Island “fertility”??
Interesting theory, but I highly doubt it. Here’s why: “Vagina” is a Latin-based word the islanders would not have used or known. Their contact with outsiders was extremely limited so the chances they developed the same word for that part of the body is astronomically small.
They had a spoken language. “Sign language” is not something they would have a need for on an island that is only 10 sq miles in size. A deaf mute would be a rarity so taking the time to develop a language based on hand gestures would be kind of pointless.
That said, I can see it as a symbol for fertility. As to why they might bury it? Maybe as an “offering” of sorts to whatever gods they believed in to help them grow more crops. Of course this fertility/burial theory is all wild speculation on my part. We may never know the full story behind the moai.
Sign language would have come after the heads though.
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thor hyderdalh talks about them in the kon tiki book he wrote
thanks kev
I was like… why the hell they didn’t dig for the bodies before???
Government restrictions?
THE STATUES, ARE A REPRESENTATION, OF LEMURIA, AND A DIRECT LINK.
THEIR HOLDING OR SHOWING THEIR BELLY BUTTONS.
OMPHALUS, UMBILICUS, STATUES ARE FACED TOWARDS MAINLAND OF AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND VIA DIRECTION SOFTWARE, AND CO-ORDINATES..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE STATUES ALSO HAVE AN EYE, IN THE REGION OF THE MOUTH, ‘BUT’ NO EYES, IN THEIR NORMAL SOCKETS. POSSIBLY.
THIS IS A FANTASTIC , FIND, MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN THE PHAROAH, IN EGYPT. BUMP THIS.
interesting points brad thanks..
this is known since 1957
I wonder if all of them have bodies, or just some. Just as there are moais with hats and others without hats…
I reckon they all have bodies!
Their is evidence of [ LEMERIA ] within Australia, significantly, along the Eastern Sea Board, Up and Down, the Corridor. Significantly occuring as Transformations, also” Signatures”.The Tropic of Capricorn, and its Constellations, intersect on The Horizons . .[ Hercules],is a Day Constellation, of The Tropic of Capricorn. Not forgetting Greek Mythology, what is worth noteing is ‘what the Tribes called the Constellations, in Comparison to Greek Legends. Dont just look at the Land , Interpret it.
Originous Zone, Region of Origin, Australia. Planetary Increase Site. The Land Of The Dimension.
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Lemuria was an ancient civilization which existed prior to and during the time of Atlantis. Physically, it is believed that Lemuria existed largely in the Southern Pacific, between North America and Asia/Australia. Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu). At its peak of civilization, the Lemurian people were both highly evolved and very spiritual. While concrete physical evidence of this ancient continent may be difficult to find, many people “know” that they have a strong connection to Lemuria.
a long long time ago, the earth was ‘born’ freed from its entanglement, of chaos, to order. Lemeria, probably,part of a Super Continent, hence earth had an umbilical chord, a connection point, these statues, are pointing towards that very point. They are also representing, that chord, that connection.DIMENSION.
Atlantis and Lemeria were, antipode, to one another. String theory states ,and not getting caught up in the theory, that all planets, were connected via a common chord. Estimates are Mars and Earth, to name a few, were connected via , a chord, Cydonia, is a connection point. Earths umbilical chord connection , is known.
interesting..could you travel in these chords?
Cosmic SAP, or Sub Atomic Particles, along with, Quantum Leaping, within the Dimension, would be possible.
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Its name possibly” Galactica Omega”.
Can I get a ticket off this rock?
Archaeologists say that the people of Easter Island lived on top of the land, but also in underground caves and tunnels that were created by molten lava turning to stone after a volcanic eruption. They have found obsidian spear and arrow heads inside the tunnels and outside. Maybe originally the entire statues were above land and after the volcanic eruption the ones that didn’t get toppled over got buried up to their necks. just a theory.
6 km of tunnels found under easter island.
http://www.monstrous.com/Monstrous_Archeology/6_km_of_tunnels_discovered_in_Eaaster_Island.html
thats wild..i can imagine the tunnels left by lava..seems 100% legit..thanks
probably, to escape the storms, or escape, someone, or something else.
Escape or shelter?
They had to escape the aliens so thats why they have those tunnels.
hehe
These hapless remnants are but silhouettes of what were once diligent gladiators standing as lookouts–until they were zapped with stealth rays from a distant source which altered their molecular structure rendering them as huge, puffy, pumice kewpie dolls to be mocked by Earthlings through the remainder of Earth Time.
Of course, these monolithic amusements as they exist now are either markers for future landing zones or they delineate the target of an oncoming massive meteor the size of four of our suns travelling at just shy of the speed of light (facts never mentioned by the MSM).
I hadnt heard that before either but I do believe they could be part of worldwide system of markers.
As one person suggested – Read Thor Heyerdahl’s books. The best one on this subject is Aku Aku, The Secret of Easter Island. After his proof on Kon Tiki that the Inca exodus from South America could have happened, he went to Easter Island to check more of his theories. In the book I have, published in 1958, there are many pictures of the statues with bodies shown. He also discovered the unique way the natives transferred the Tiki’s from the quarry to their resting place. They demonstrated for him how it was done. Why has it taken so long to “rediscover” this when one group of scientists already had and published their work, both scientifically and for the public?
some history they like to keep hidden..thanks..
Times were different then. Seeing the whole statue (in an almost meditative or praying stance) , and knowing there were “religious” wars happening everywhere, maybe they were transported to pits then buried to their necks so warring invaders to their lands couldn’t condemn the islanders for their beliefs. If you think about it, who’s going to get mad about stone “heads” watching over crops ? So many theories…….
To Dr. Joanne Van Tilburg, It was’nt the polynisians that built the Moai’s as
thought. It takes a lot of strenght, and tree stumps would’nt complete that
task either. I humbly ask you to research about the Nephilims on Nat Geo.
The Nephilims were as tall as 36 feet. They were huge and of great strength. There is no theory to those giant Moai’s, just logic. In the Bible
Numbers 13:33 ” And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which
come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so
we were in their sight.” Easter Island is captivating, and you’re doing an
excellent archaeology study in finding the bodies that belongs to the head.
I applaud you, and your team.
thanks caryn..giants did walk the earth at some stage i believe..
This Island was once lush, and full of now extinct Palm Trees, so they had no way off of the Island once they exhausted all of their resources. I can’t imagine being stuck on an Island that was once paradise, and because of food scarcity, they had to fight each other off because they had to eat and cannibalism was on the menu. It’s sad, but their legacy will live on forever with the beautiful statues that they erected.
thanks for that..
This is fascinating! I would guess that the statues were most likely buried naturally over time. I had heard about this awhile ago but this is the first time I’d seen any pictures. Thanks for the great site, seeker401!
your welcome friend
The photos are not real. They’re photo shop.
This is supposed to bitter people’s wonder and make everybody more vulnerable to the status qou.
Theres a candle in one photo and another photo the back is statue from a Chinese statue not a moai.
and you’re not real either – just a computer algorithm that makes comments on blogs.
Troll, they have been excavating these statues since the early 1900′s. At least read some history before commenting.
Agree.