*Ø* Blogmanac September | The Bird Man ritual of Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui, known also as Easter Island (Spanish Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean, west and slightly north of Santiago, Chile and part of the territory of Chile (Valparaíso Region). It has a population of only about 2,000 locals and an unknown number of ethnographers ...
The origins of the Rapa Nui people are only slowly coming to light. Thor Heyerdahl (Easter Island: The Mystery Solved) proposed that they are of Peruvian descent, which he deduced from a similarity between Rapa Nui and Incan stonework. It has even been suggested by some, such as the long discredited Erich von Daniken, that Rapa Nui is the remnant of a lost continent, or its culture the result of some extra-terrestrial influence. Modern scholarship, however, indicates discovery of the island by Polynesians in about 400 CE, led, according to legend, by Hotu Matua.
September in Rapa Nui, until about the 1860s, was an important time for the Rapa Nui people, in an annual custom since lost to time: the springtime ceremonies of the cult (or religion) of the Bird Man ...
Today I uploaded the full article about the Bird Man ritual of Rapa Nui.
I hope you enjoy it, here at the Scriptorium.
Rapa Nui, known also as Easter Island (Spanish Isla de Pascua) is an island in the south Pacific Ocean, west and slightly north of Santiago, Chile and part of the territory of Chile (Valparaíso Region). It has a population of only about 2,000 locals and an unknown number of ethnographers ...
The origins of the Rapa Nui people are only slowly coming to light. Thor Heyerdahl (Easter Island: The Mystery Solved) proposed that they are of Peruvian descent, which he deduced from a similarity between Rapa Nui and Incan stonework. It has even been suggested by some, such as the long discredited Erich von Daniken, that Rapa Nui is the remnant of a lost continent, or its culture the result of some extra-terrestrial influence. Modern scholarship, however, indicates discovery of the island by Polynesians in about 400 CE, led, according to legend, by Hotu Matua.
September in Rapa Nui, until about the 1860s, was an important time for the Rapa Nui people, in an annual custom since lost to time: the springtime ceremonies of the cult (or religion) of the Bird Man ...
Today I uploaded the full article about the Bird Man ritual of Rapa Nui.
I hope you enjoy it, here at the Scriptorium.
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