Easter Island heads have bodies?

Palinurus said:

More info (Spanish only) about the excavation process with extra photographs here:

http://www.eisp.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/pascua-368.pdf

Great find Ask_a_debtor!

According to the C's these statues depict the Nephilim if I remember correctly.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Easter_Island said:

The Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl believed that cultural similarities exist between Easter Island and South American Indian cultures which he suggested might have resulted from some settlers arriving from the continent. According to local legends, a group of long-eared people called hanau epe arrived on the island sometime after the original inhabitants, introducing the stone carving technology and attempting to enslave the population. Some early accounts of the legend place hanau epe as the original residents and the contemporary Easter Islanders as later immigrants coming from Oparo. After mutual suspicions erupted in a violent clash, the hanau epe were overthrown and exterminated, leaving only one survivor. Sebastian Englert states that "Long-Ear" is a misinterpretation of Hanau ‘E‘epe "stout race".

The fact that the sweet potato, a staple of the pre-contact Polynesian diet, is of South American origin, and that there is no evidence that its seed could spread by floating across the ocean, indicates that there must have been some contact between the two cultures.[18] Either Polynesians traveled to South America and back, or Indian balsa rafts drifted to Polynesia, possibly unable to make a return trip because of their less developed navigational skills and more fragile boats, or both. Polynesian connections in South America have been claimed to exist among the Mapuche Indians in central and southern Chile. The Polynesian name for the small islet of Sala y Gómez (Manu Motu Motiro Hiva, "Bird's islet on the way to a far away land") east of Easter Island has also been seen as a hint that South America was known before European contacts. Further complicating the situation is that the word Hiva ("far away land") was also the name of the islanders' legendary home country. Inexplicable insistence on an eastern origin for the first inhabitants was unanimous among the islanders in all early accounts.

Jacob Roggeveen's expedition of 1722 gives us our first description of the islanders. They were "of all shades of colour, yellow, white and brown" and they distended their ear lobes so greatly with large disks that when they took them out they could "hitch the rim of the lobe over the top of the ear". Roggeveen also noted how some of the islanders were "generally large in stature". Islanders' tallness was also witnessed by the Spanish who visited the island in 1770, measuring heights of 196 and 199 cm. DNA sequence analysis of Easter Island's current inhabitants indicates that the 36 people living on Rapanui who survived the devastating internecine wars, slave raids and epidemics of the 19th century and had any offspring, were Polynesian. Furthermore, examination of skeletons offers evidence of only Polynesian origins for Rapanui living on the island after 1680.

Geneticist Erik Thorsby and colleagues have published two studies in the peer-reviewed journal Tissue Antigens that present evidence for an Amerindian genetic contribution to the Eastern Island population, which was probably introduced prior to the European discovery of the island.

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_http://www.easterislandtourism.com/easter-island/culture/myths-and-legends-of-easter-island/ said:

Since researches haven’t found all the missing links of Easter Island’s culture yet, the reconstruction of their past wanders between myth and reality. This option is not uncertain if we consider that many of the facts we study started with the interpretation of a myth. One of the most characteristic legends of the island is the one of the seven explorers. According to this legend, before the journey of King Hotu Matua and following the instructions of a clairvoyant, seven sailors came to the island in search of an appropriate place to settle and plant yam, a tuber that is key for the nutrition of the immigrants. Two of them also brought a moai and a mother-of-pearl necklace, which they hid and left when they returned to their native land of Hiva. Only one explorer stayed in the island. Several studies have rescued facts from this myth that are verifiable today: When Hotu Matua came to the island, yam already existed, and also the moai. In fact, some deduct that the seven explorers symbolize the seven generations that inhabited the place, or maybe seven immigrant tribes, from which only one survived in order to mix with Hotu Matua’s people. The facts allowed the researchers to conclude that the king died 20 years after arriving to the island, and that he was succeeded by his older son Tuu Maheke. The last member of this dynasty was Gregorio O Roroko He Tau, also known as the Child King, who died in 1886. Although the people of the island believe the dynastic succession did not have any diversions or interruptions, there are several signs that point out that the dynastic descent suffered many alterations. Today, there is still a family who claims to descend from the great king Hotu Matua.

We know that after the first Polynesians, a second immigration came to the island. The origin of these new settlers is polemic, since their racial characteristics are different from those who considered themselves native at the time. The new inhabitants were called Hanau Eepe, which literally means “wide race”. In fact, they were more corpulent and robust than the Hanau Momoko, or “thin race”, who occupied the place before. The Hanau Eepe had very developed ear lobes, which is why many anthropologists associate them with the Inca people. Nevertheless, like many others, this is a mystery not yet deciphered. For the time being, the short ears and the long ears are historical protagonists of the island’s origin, and their coexistence is backed by real testimonies of the past.

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_http://sacredsites.com/americas/chile/easter_island.html said:

Carved stone and wooden objects in ancient Polynesian religions, when properly fashioned and ritually prepared, were believed to be charged by a magical spiritual essence called mana.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana said:

Mana is an indigenous Pacific islander concept of an impersonal force or quality that resides in people, animals, and inanimate objects. The word is a cognate in many Oceanic languages, including Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian.

In anthropological discourse, mana as a generalized concept is often understood as a precursor to formal religion. It has commonly been interpreted as "the stuff of which magic is formed," as well as the substance of which souls are made.

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