A lesser known legend about why the rapa nui settlers left their original home. Jan 12, 2015 the reasons as to why the polynesians that once lived on easter island, called the rapa nui, has long been debated. Moai are the enormous easter island heads that have come to symbolize the ancient traditions of rapa nui, the native culture of easter island. The people and cuisine reflect that blending of backgrounds, and though spanish is widely spoken, most islanders also speak rapa nui. The reasons as to why the polynesians that once lived on easter island, called the rapa nui, has long been debated. They landed at anakena beach and his people spread out across the island, subdivided it between. This stone in easter island emanates electromagnetic waves that make any compass go bananas and its supposed to rejuvenate you too. With jason scott lee, esai morales, sandrine holt, eru potaka dewes. It is believed to have been settled by ancient polynesians during the 4th century.
In addition, she costarred with jennifer garner, buck henry and amanda peet in. Within 400 years of colonization, deforestation was well underway5. Rapa nui pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released rapa nui pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten tomatoes movie pictures archive. The decline and fall of easter island and its alleged selfdestruction has become the poster child of a new environmentalist historiography, a school of thought that goes hand in hand with predictions of environmental disaster. Carved on the upper back and shoulders are two birdmen, facing each other. These people had sufficient technology to build these moai, some of which were double the size of the stones at stonehenge and move them. Thomson on the ship uss mohican when staying at rapa nui during 11 days in 1886. Analysis of giant stone hats found on rapa nui, chile easter island provides evidence contrary to the widely held belief that the ancient civilization had a warrior culture. Rapa nui language the ancestral language of easter island called rapa nui language is a remnant of ancient mystery. However, there are two words pronounced pito in rapa nui, one meaning. According to rapa nui mythology hotu matua was the legendary first settler and ariki mau supreme chief or king of easter island. Rapanui recognize two classes of dressed or cut stones. For the album by kris kristofferson, see easter island album.
Sep 10, 2019 the rapa nui are the aboriginal polynesian inhabitants of easter island in the pacific ocean. The mysterious easter island 2 min read rapa nui, better known as easter island, is a chilean island in polynesia. The filmmakers attempt to answer the question of who built them and why. In 2003, bbc had a program on why the rapa nui western name. Supporting and promoting easter island rapa nui and their culture stranka na. The only problem is that, since the movie tanked in the us, the only dvds available are made in korea and the quality of the film makes it look almost like 1970s footage. The easternmost polynesian culture, the descendants of the original people of rapa nui make up about 60% of the current rapa nui population and have a significant portion of their population residing in mainland chile. Polynesians arrived in rapa nui by dugout canoe 1,600 years ago and lived in isolation until the island was discovered by dutch explorers on easter sunday, 1722. Main page culture, history history of rapa nui hotu matua. Was the first highest rank leader of easter island, he is believed to have brought his people on 2 boats more than 1. These pages record the recent roundtheworld trip i made in march 2011 with my wife, wendy. Tepano collected place names, legends, oral traditions. Easter islands demise may have surprising new explanation. With kevin costner, jason scott lee, esai morales, sandrine holt.
She has starred in such films as rapa nui 1994, dance me outside 1994 and pocahontas. It is suggested that the impressiveness of rapa nuis stone architecture is its conceptual coherence at the small scale as much as at the large. Easter island rapa nui extinction reasons determined by. Rapa nui easter island the terra papers, the ancient star war. A rapa nui rock garden, or agricultural field, with poike volcano in the background. Rapa nui civilization flourished on easter island between 1250 and 1500. It is generally agreed that rapa nui s oral traditions are untrustworthy and of. A series of devastating events killed or removed most of the population in the 1860s.
The rapa nui people, who have lived on easter island since before europeans arrived, accomplished incredible feats of engineering. Rapa nui is a 1994 film directed by kevin reynolds and coproduced by kevin costner, who starred in reynoldss previous film, robin hood. Rapa nui is a timeless story and one which reminds us that, in any time and place, we are all the same and subject to the same selfcreated perils. Rapa nui had created those magnificent giant stone statues or moai from volcanic stones and set them on platforms along the coast. The cheers turned to anguish in a matter of minutes on that festive sunday, june 7, 2015. Some scientists argued that the rapa nui died out after using up all their natural resources on the small, 63 squaremile island in the southeastern pacific ocean.
Reward yourself with your dream trip to italy, where you will join chef rodrigo at one of our luxury villas. Lying isolated in the east pacific, in an extreme windward position, rapa nui is the easternmost polynesian island. Buck, vikings of the pacific, university of chicago press, 1938. Widely accepted belief that rapa nui inhabitants of easter island, located 2,500 miles off the coast of chile, were aggressive warriors is now questioned. The decline and fall of easter island and its alleged selfdestruction has become the poster child of a new environmentalist historiography, a school of thought that goes handinhand with predictions of environmental disaster. Other researchers said that the population of easter island died out after europeans. It is spoken on the island of rapa nui, also known as easter island the island is home to a population of just under 6,000 and is a special territory of chile. In addition, she costarred with jennifer garner, buck.
See all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Easter island is an island and special territory of chile in the southeastern pacific ocean, at the. In 1995, unesco named easter island a world heritage. Easter island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai meaning. The entire island has been an official unesco world heritage site since 1995 and most of the area belongs to rapa nui national park. First, the statues heads are disproportionately large. Other researchers said that the population of easter island died. When the first europeans who arrived off the coast of rapa nui during the 18th century they were astonished to see the stone statues. Now a part of chile, easter island is the most isolated, western point of the polynesian triangle of the south pacific. Rapa nui is a barren island, but this was not always the case. Mar 19, 2012 rapa nui easter island the terra papers, the ancient star war. The following is a lesser known legend relating the events that resulted in king hotu matua and his people later to be known as hanau momoko fleeing from their home, here called marae toe hau, part of the land hiva it was recorded by william j. Quarry on easter island national geographic society. Spanish is the most widely spoken language on easter island and the primary language of education and administration.
Ahu the ceremonial stone structures of easter island. The magnetic stone of easter island rapa nui backpack me. In 1995, unesco named easter island a world heritage site, with much of the island protected within. Florence, the capital of tuscany is home to some of the worlds most recognizable renaissance art and architecture. Rapa nui is the only movie that has ever been filmed about the civilization that once populated easter island. The magnetic stone of easter island rapa nui youtube. Nukuhiva to mangareva july 31august 29, 1999 leg 2. Rapa nui is a minority language, as most rapa nui people speak spanish as their first language.
Sandrine holt made her feature film debut in bruce beresfords epic black robe 1991, which earned her a genie award nomination for best supporting actress. It is surrounded by an infinity of sea, lying some 2,000km from its nearest neighbour, pitcairn island, and 3,700km from the mainland, central chile. Easter island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by. It forms its own subgroup within that classification. Moai statues, easter island from genocide to ecocide, the rape of rapa nui benny peiser, liverpool john moores university, faculty of science. Oct 24, 20 rapa nui is a small south pacific island of 164 square kilometres fig. It was filmed in 1994, directed by kevin reynolds, produced by kevin costner, and starred by jason scott lee, esai morales and sandrine holt. The quarry seen at a distance, with the statues scattered over the hillside. Supporting and promoting easter island rapa nui and their culture stranka na podporuju velikonocniho ostrova a. Easter island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island. Pdf the dressed stone manufacturing technology of rapa nui. The remarkable nature of rapa nui easter island is so much more than its renowned colossal statues, known as moai.
A rapa nui rock garden, or agricultural field, with. Mysterious polynesian island known for its giant stone statues. Rapa nui turismo rod deputado nagib chaib, 2080 av. The plot is based on rapanui legends of easter island, chile, in particular the race for the sooty terns egg in the birdman cult the historic details of this film are questionable, but the central themethe destruction of the. This is the outside edge of the volcano the crater is over the other side and will be seen in the photos below when one approaches closeup, one can see that many of the statues are standing upright, buried mostly up to their shoulders, more or less fully carved. Rapa nui translation services english to rapa nui translations. Claudio cristino and roberto izaurieta 10 june 2005. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. My name is andrew selkirk, and i am the editorinchief of the magazines current archaeology and current world archaeology. Many caves feature in the myths and legends of the rapa nui. The arrival and extermination of the second immigration to rapa nui. Posted on may 15th, 2009 by guest contributor categories. Moai are called easter island heads for two reasons. About rapa nui, rano raraku survey facts about rapa nui easter island location.
They were virtually wiped out by a series of disasters natural and manmade that brought a. This adventurefilled epic speculates upon the original inhabitants of easter island who are best known for their mysterious moai, the huge stone heads that dot the island. The plot is based on rapanui legends of easter island, chile, in particular the race for the sooty terns egg in the birdman cult. Rapa nui mythology wikimili, the free encyclopedia. Rapa nui is a clumsy potboiler about warring tribes on easter island home of the mysterious huge stone faces in the early 1600s. Studies of pollen cores prove that the first polynesian settlers found an island paradise of lush, subtropical forest6. Although fragmentary legends have been passed down, only science can hope to. It is believed that rapa nui is currently undergoing a shift toward more spanish sentence structure. Catherine fuller journal, nukuhiva to mangaerva july 26august 30, 1999 leg 3. Mostly only the elders speak it well, even though almost everyone speak it at least to some extent. Situated on the nazca plate at a volcanic and tectonic hot spot, it is 3703 km west of south. Rapanui is a 1994 film directed by kevin reynolds and coproduced by kevin costner, who starred in reynoldss previous film, robin hood.