With kevin costner, jason scott lee, esai morales, sandrine holt. Information and translations of rapa nui in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on. This made the rapa nui culture and history have not been completely unraveled and made the easter island myths and legends very relevant. The sleeping stone giants of rapa nui brien foerster. Rapa nui mythology, also known as pascuense mythology or easter island mythology, refers to the native myths, legends, and beliefs of the rapa nui people of. The secrets of easter island history smithsonian magazine. The islands colossal stone carvings moai have been the primary attraction, yet these have overshadowed the broader culture of the rapanui people. Rapa, sometimes called rapa iti little rapa, to distinguish it from rapa nui big rapa, a name for easter island, is the largest and only inhabited island of the bass islands in french polynesia. Easter islands silent stone figures are a monument to the seafaring skills and unique culture of ancient polynesian pe. In 1992, a thesis came to light, sustaining the collapse of easter islands. About rapa nui for information and special considerations for creating rapa nui language entries. United states holocaust memorial museum recommended for you. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. Rapa is the most farflung of the austral islands, some 1,420 km to the south of tahiti.
It is in the southern hemisphere at 27 9 s latitude, 109 26 w longitude. With jason scott lee, esai morales, sandrine holt, eru potaka dewes. A grammar of rapa nui studies in diversity linguistics 12. According to legends, the first settlers came from a south pacific island called hiva, which had succumbed to a cataclysm. Rapa nui music, booking and media agency in alliance with nuku te mango, an ethnic rapa nui record label, are preparing the launch of a media campaign through digital channels to achieve the visualization of the musical art from the island on international circuits. Publications the easter island foundation promoting the. Rapa nui offers a world of inquiry that have remained unanswered for centuries. French traders and missionaries, peruvian slave raiders, chilean imperialists. Rapa nui means big rapa, in tahitian language, and refers to the small island of rapa, also known as oparo, located in the archipelago of the southern islands belonging to french polynesia.
Easter island lies in the middle of the pacific, 2000 miles from the nearest mainland in chile, and is the most remote of all the islands to be settled in the first. Many caves feature in the myths and legends of the rapa nui. The easter island mystery is mainly due to its isolation. Lying isolated in the east pacific, in an extreme windward position, rapa nui is the easternmost polynesian island. Here and there, lying moai emerge from these accumu lations of stones, several of them are broken fig.
Easter island is made up principally of three volcanoes. Learn to speak some rapanui language to impress the islanders. A strategic alliance in favor of the polynesian rapa nui culture. Pdf a general up to date to the rapa nui easter island archaeology. Easter island or rapa nui has long captivated travellers and explorers since it was first encountered by european voyagers in 1722. Questions abound surrounding the origins of the people and their culture, the moai statues, the tangata manu birdman cult and the history of the islands racial extermination, ecological and natural disasters. Easter island name a journey through the history of rapa nui. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination.
Rapa nui slips through the national geographic loophole. A glossary of terms and defintions used on easter island rapa nui. They been transmitted orally by the natives and collected by ancient visitants. The easter islands, off of the coast of modern day chile, is home to one of the most mysterious wonders in the world. It looks like we dont have any episodes for this title yet. Easter island or rather rapa nui as the islanders themselves tend to call it, is home to some of the strangest and most remarkable monuments to be found anywhere in the world. Spanish is the most widely spoken language on easter island and the primary language of education and administration. See more ideas about easter island, island and easter island statues. Currently, rapa island is also known as rapa iti or little rapa to differentiate it from its bigger sister. From chiles annexation of easter island in the late 19th century rapa nui natives were interned in the town of hanga roa while the rest of the island was turned into a vast sheep ranch. With 600 meters of the mountain perehau, it stands alone in the middle of the ocean, more than 500 km from any human habitation. Rapa nui terms that narrow down, within the conversational context, the referent of following noun. Rapa nui is a minority language, as most rapa nui people speak spanish as their first language.
The easter island foundation promoting the conservation. Legends speak of an ancient civil war between two tribes, the long ears and the short ears, who once inhabited these islands. Rapa nui surfcamp fuerteventura, fuerteventura, canarias, spain. Easter island rapa nui has become widely known as a case of ecocide, where the ancient polynesians recklessly destroyed their environment and, as a consequence, suffered collapse. Facts about rapa nui easter island jo anne van tilburg, ph. Rapa nui has no descendants or varieties listed in wiktionarys language data modules.
To test his theory, in 1947 he left the coast of peru on a rudimentary wooden boat the kon tiki and following the currents managed to arrive at french polynesia. Easter island is famous for its humongous stone statues, called moai. The rapa nui are the native polynesian inhabitants of easter island, or rapa nui, in the pacific ocean. Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island. Download pdf rapa nui easter island free online new. Download pdf rapa nui easter island free online new books. Rapa nui legends say the moai walked with the help of a chief or priest who had. Main page culture, history history of rapa nui hotu matua.
Rapa nui island is actually a volcano, renowned for its 887 stone statues spread across the island. Little rapa, rapa iti in tahitian,is the little sister of easter island chile, the legendary rapa nui. To early travelers, the spectacle of immense stone figures, at once serenely. Myths and legends of the moai on rapa nuithe easter island. Discover myths and legends of the moai on rapa nui the easter island. Just click the add episode button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the tv episodes submission guide. Engraving of rano raraku volcano by the french painter of bar easter island name.
Was the first highest rank leader of easter island, he is believed to have brought his people on 2 boats more than 1. Finally, critical examination of the myths and legends shows that. The land takes up just over 63 square miles in the south pacific ocean, some 2,300 miles west. Buck, vikings of the pacific, university of chicago press, 1938. Rapa nui terms that connect words, phrases or clauses together. When the first europeans who arrived off the coast of rapa nui during the 18th century they were astonished to see the stone statues. Most of these statues were sculpted from volcanic stone and erected between the years 1100 and 1680 ad by the early inhabitants of this island. Rapa nui easter island culture polynesian cultural center. Showing some cultural interest by speaking the local language can open many doors on the island. Join professor kiwi as he explores the history of the island, legends and folklore. Information and translations of rapa nui in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. It is approximately 2,000 miles to the east of tahiti and approximately 2,200 miles off the coast of chile, making it one of the most isolated islands in the world.
Oct 24, 20 the remarkable nature of rapa nui easter island is so much more than its renowned colossal statues, known as moai. Rapa nui is located about 4,300 miles southeast of hawaii its actually closer to antarctica. Dutch admiral jacob roggeveen came upon rapa nui on easter sunday, 1722, hence the english name easter island. Rapa nui, though made by white people like moana, starred mostly indigenous polynesian and caribbean islanders again like moana, and was as historically accurate as the legends the movie was based on would allow like atanarjuat. The anthropological easter island museum the only museum on the island, is named after the priest sebastian englert, a german priest who came to the island in 1935 and spent the last 34 years of his life studying and disseminating the language, traditions and archaeological heritage of rapa nui. It was this priest who conducted the first archaeological inventory of. Rampant interclan warfare began within a few decades of this contact, and resulted in all of the moai being toppled by 1864.
The rapa nui people had a stone age culture and made extensive use of. Rapa nui terms organized by topic, such as family or chemistry. One tribe was powerful and demanded tributes from the. This is the hollywood convention which teaches us that brown breasts are not as sinful as white ones, and so while it may be evil to gaze upon a blond playboy centerfold and feel lust in our hearts, it is educational to watch polynesian maidens frolicking topless in the surf. Rapa nui nude scenes 8 images and 4 videos including appearances from rena owen sandrine holt. Easter island, the essential guide, by kay kenady sanger. Next to it it is a smaller volcano, rano raraku, which is the volcano from which all the statues on the island were quarried, and where over 300 of them still remain. But these myths, that try to explain past events, are usually adorned by the imagination of the teller or the listener. None were left standing by the time of the arrival of the french missionaries in the. Rapa nui wordreference english dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. Pdf by considering the stones of rapa nui easter island on a landscape scale, their sources, properties and elemental. See more ideas about easter island, island and polynesian islands.
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 scale. Introduction sentinels in stone easter island rock. Easter island is an island and special territory of chile in the southeastern pacific ocean, at the. Mostly only the elders speak it well, even though almost everyone speak it at least to some extent. The idea of all without exceptions can be expressed by itinui iinstead of ananake kaoho tahi, tagata iti, tagata nui, vie iti, vie nui, poki iti, poki nui.