Post #99979 by Lake Surfer on Mon, Jul 5, 2004 10:56 PM

LS Lake Surfer Tiki Socialite Milwaukee, WI Joined: Oct 21, 2002 Posts: 3417	LS Lake Surfer Posted posted on Mon, Jul 5, 2004 10:56 PM On 2004-07-05 01:43, Jay_G wrote: I was trying Google to see if the Easter Island Moai were some specific god... Moai are believed by most archaeologists to represent the spirits of ancestors, chiefs, or other high-ranking males who held important positions in the history of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, the name given by the indigenous people to their island in the 1860s.