Walking with the Giants

Walking with the Giants

The Easter Island also known as the Rapa Nui were thousands of massive stone carved figures instilled with spirit with the ancestors. We know they moved them into scared platforms called as Ahu but we don’t know they moved it. The Moai were carved to represent the islands ancestors. They were made by volcanic tuff or compressed ash. In order to carve this figures, carvers those days used dense stone tools made out of basalt. After they were made it is time to move them to the sacred platform the Ahu.

               There were different kinds of theory on how this Moai were moved. According to some theory, the theory of Thor Heyerdahl the statues were moved by dragging it horizontally.  Another theory from William Mulloy that the Moai moved by putting it in a V inverted wood but it wasn’t enough. But oral traditions that these statues”walked”, a theory from Pavel Pavel and Heyerdahl that it walked by twisting motion. Charles’s love theory that he stood his Moai upright by the use of wooden rollers but it was still not enough. The theory that made it right is from Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo that the Moai moved by swinging it to left to right with three ropes. The structure of the Moai were easily moved by its D shape stand, that every time it was moved it was easily to control to left to right.

           The first theory that I thought that these Moai were moved by Aliens but it was impossible. Science did tell anything that these figures were moved by alien spaceships. In making.Moai figures, people from the Easter island were very patient in making statues, I think they were inspired by for they ancestors as they main role on that island. They were passionate for the spirits of their ancestors.