Easter Island: Land of Those Mysterious Stone Giants

Easter Island: Land of Those Mysterious Stone Giants
Ahu Akivi is an especially sacred place for the people of Rapa Nui, the name the island’s indigenous Polynesian people prefer over Easter Island. FRED J. ECKERT
Fred J. Eckert
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It’s the land of those mysterious stone giants—that’s pretty much all that I knew about Easter Island.

That’s practically all that most of us know about it—vague impressions of the arcane that we have formed from the photographic images that we have seen of those gigantic strange stone statues known as “moai.”

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