What is the meaning of giant stone moai stand on Easter Island?
I recall seeing these giants in schoolbooks and just somehow sensing that they were looking out to the sea, tho’ whether as guards or to watch for the resurn of residents, I never knew. I guess that’s part of the charm. We still don’t know, tho’ many theories have been offered, many by noted scholars and explorers. The linked info is way too long to copy and paste fully, so an excerpt The first fragmentary oral traditions were chronicled by European missionaries and visitors who interviewed a few locals about their ‘pagan’ history. It is important to understand the context of these early conversations. While the customary keepers of traditional folklore had been deported or killed, the island’s ethnicity had changed as a result of population transfers on the 1860s and 70s, with an influx of a number of foreign Polynesians on Easter Island (Thomson, 1891:453). As Holton (2004) points out, “most of the island’s myths were collected in the nineteenth century, after the population collapse
