It's name?
It is named Easter Island by the first European visitor, Jacob Roggeveen on an Easter Sunday 288 years ago, in 1722.
He didn't name it "Easter Island" but instead Paasch-Eyland
( in Dutch for Easter Island).
The island's official Spanish name is Isla de Pascua.
The current Polynesian name of the island is Rapa Nui. "Nui" means big, so, it is also called Big Rapa.
What and where is it?
Easter Island is a cultural island and one of the most isolated island located in Chile, South America. It's shape is almost like a triangle.
(Easter Island. A little bit more to the East according to this picture is Chile.)
Is it inhabited?
For your information, inhabited means occupied.
Easter Island is inhabited by some normal people and some indigenous people. Meaning to say there are people living here.
It's history:
The population of Easter Island has decreased more than once due to famines, epidemics, civil war, slave raids colonialism and deforestation.
How come?
Think and get your minds working again.
Why statues?
I'm sure some of you are wondering, why is this island full of statues?
Let me tell you the reason for this.
Building statues is a culture for the Rapanui ( inhabitants ) in order to represent the statues as their ancestors. They worship their ancestors as idols.
It was believed that the living had a beneficial relationship with the dead where the dead would provide safety and fortune to the living and the living could provide the dead with a better place in the spirit world.
Easter Island today:
(statues or people?)
Not mysterious enough for you?
DON'T COMPLAIN.
Instead, think of this:
What did their ancestors do that made them idols for their descendants?
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http://cache.virtualtourist.com
http://www.gira.ca
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25 October 2012 at 05:19
post some pics of their civil war :)