Easter Island Creation Legend
- Easter Island Creation Legend
The earliest myths of Easter Island refer to struggle for supremacy between the ‘Big Ears’ and the ‘Small Ears’. It is not now possible to say where the ‘Big Ear’ people, the prototype of the statues, came from; but there are elements of Melanesian culture which appear to be similar. The colossal stone statues of long-eared people wearing pumice-stone hats have long been a mystery to archaeologists; they possibly represented a link with some vanished culture of the Pacific. Unfortunately it has not been possible to decipher the petroglyphs or to interpret the drawings of birds and birdmen, which seem to relate to some unusual form of worship. The native name for Easter Island is Rapanui.
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