Thursday, September 28, 2006

"The graveyard of Polynesia"

Mystery, wild rats and avaricious whalers
Alkan CHAGLAR (
alkan@toplumpostasi.net)
toplumpostasi.net
September 28, 2006

Windswept volcanic rocks assaulted at every angle by the ferocity of the Ocean in which it lies, Easter Island has kindled the imaginations of Europeans with its unexplained humanoid statues since it was given its name by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen who sighted it in April 1771. The mysterious megaliths on Rapa Nui (the Polynesian name for the island), which admittedly reassembles silent Gods watching over their subjects have been a source of shrouded mystery for many European writers. Long trying to locate answers for the megaliths and the foreboding ecological disaster that left the island a desert in the ocean, Europeans have thought up many possible theories, some bordering on the extremes of human imagination.

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