Post #563179 by uncle trav on Wed, Nov 3, 2010 7:58 AM

JONPAUL - HUGE THANKS for book suggestion AND links!! The stone structure link is PHENOMENAL! And this can't be real...

On 2010-03-19 16:31, uncle trav wrote:
Here is a nice clear shot for you.

...without all the mold and weathering, can it?? I'll have to ask Uncle Trav.

It's a real image, just can't remember where I got it from at the moment. The reason for the carving looking so "crisp" may be that the Bird Man cult was a later religion on the island. Post ancestor worship and statue carving. The moai may have been carved much earlier than the new images applied to it's back by a long period of time giving it a much more "crisp" look. What a better canvas for your new religion than over the images of the old. This has happened throughout history. Being carved on a vertical surface they may have weathered better that the Bird Man petroglyphs at Orango on the crater rim of Rano Kau. I'm no expert on the subject so if I am on the wrong track of thinking I am sure someone can help you out. Thanks

"Anyone who has ever seen them is thereafter haunted as if by a feverish dream" Karl Woermann

[ Edited by: uncle trav 2010-11-03 07:59 ]