Post #190608 by Palama Tiki on Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:25 AM

I recently finished reading "the Enigmas of Easter Island", which, although very thorough, had an extremely rational tone and went to great lengths to show that the islanders moved the statues via mechanical means, but in the end, the authors state that, "[W]e need to go back to the drawing board, because researchers have always assumed that the island’s roadbed surface was flat and the road horizontal; but ... none of the moai-moving theories or experimental methods presented so far can cope with the structure of the roads he [Love] has excavated! The cut parts of the road are not conducive to rollers or tilting a statue along, and any contraption used would have to accommodate both the flat fill surfaces and the V-shaped surfaces. So the mystery of statue transportation remains intact."

According to this website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/easter2.htm#e2

The islanders have a legend that the statues were moved to the platforms and raised upright by the use of mana, or mind power. Either the god Makemake, or priests or chiefs commanded them to walk or to float through the air, and according to one legend, use was made of a finely crafted stone sphere, 75 cm (2.5 ft) in diameter, called te pito kura (‘the golden navel’ or ‘the navel of light’), to focus the mana. Legends about the use of levitation in the construction of megalithic monuments are found all over the world.1

in the words of Larry the Cable Guy, "I believe" that:

*humans are spiritual beings,
*our ancestors were very attuned to the spirit world,
*modern western society has to have a rational, tangible explanation for everything,
*and, that although i believe that life is abundant throughout the universe, the ancients didn't need aliens to do their work for them; they were far more advanced in the areas of mental and spiritual 'technology' than we are today.