Easter Island heads have bodies
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Easter Island heads have bodies
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#2Anyone else wondering why it took so long to look below the surface?
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#3This blew my mind. I don't know why, I find it incredibly eye-opening that the first thought that one might think of on seeing a head in the dirt (that there's the rest of it underneath) has just simply never occurred to generations of people because we were "told" by someone that they're just heads.
How powerful words can be in casting an illusion, in defeating creativity, and hiding the truth!
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#4Anyone else wondering why it took so long to look below the surface?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ahu_Tongariki.jpg
The article has an image of excavated ones that have short bodies. Seems like this one was unusually tall.
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#5This blew my mind. I don't know why, I find it incredibly eye-opening that the first thought that one might think of on seeing a head in the dirt (that there's the rest of it underneath) has just simply never occurred to generations of people because we were "told" by someone that they're just heads. How powerful words can be in casting an illusion, in defeating creativity, and hiding the truth!
A Google Images search for "Easter Island" reveals many heads with above-ground bodies, and a few heads buried up to their noses. That some of the bodies are buried up to the neck should come as no surprise to anyone.
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#6That is phenomenal. Raises the question: did whoever built them bury them, or were they buried by natural forces?
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#7This is one of the most amazing discoveries I have seen recently. The sheer weight of that stone is absolutely insane. I'm still a little stunned this was just discovered.
I would love to know what the people who made this were thinking. To create a work of art that detailed and massive just to bury 75% of it seems very odd. I'm sure there was a good reason to do it (in their minds at least), I'd love to know what that was.
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#8This is one of the most amazing discoveries I have seen recently. The sheer weight of that stone is absolutely insane. I'm still a little stunned this was just discovered. I would love to know what the people who made this were thinking. To create a work of art that detailed and massive just to bury 75% of it seems very odd. I'm sure there was a good reason to do it (in their minds at least), I'd love to know what th…
Making stuff and burying it is very common in archeology according to my (limited) knowledge. Chucking stuff as offerings into springs, holes etc as offerings. Burin it with dead people (anyone under that stone is now 2 dimensional).
But I do agree that this seems odd - half burying...
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#9That is phenomenal. Raises the question: did whoever built them bury them, or were they buried by natural forces?
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps originally they weren't buried. Are they designed in such as way as they could have stood upright by themselves?
I would guess that the people doing this work would be able to determine the dirt they were digging into was newer or older than the rock itself.
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#10This is one of the most amazing discoveries I have seen recently. The sheer weight of that stone is absolutely insane. I'm still a little stunned this was just discovered. I would love to know what the people who made this were thinking. To create a work of art that detailed and massive just to bury 75% of it seems very odd. I'm sure there was a good reason to do it (in their minds at least), I'd love to know what th…
Maybe them just knowing the art is there is good enough. Like painters who paint the back sides of fences[1], or watchmakers who make intricate engravings on the internal parts, because 'God can see it'[2].
[1] http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/sci_tech/biographer-rev...
[2] http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_seymour_how_beauty_feels.ht...