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Métraux states that Easter Island's "greatest religious festival, the only one concerning which circumstantial details survive, was that of the bird-man, intimately linked with the cult of the god Makemake."
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purchased in an auction room. It was cheap because the seller believed it was a forgery. Its whole history is discovered: while there was still wood of the (now locally extinct)
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tree on Easter Island it was carved to represent the god Makemake, traded with the crew of Captain Cook's ship, transported to
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Makemake, as a face with large eyes or perhaps a skull with large eye sockets and a phallic nose, is a frequent subject of the
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Kenatea. Each of the four gods had a supernatural servant, whose "names were given" in the ceremonies.
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Makemake's offspring were Tive, Rorai, Hova and "the noblewoman Arangi-kote-kote".
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era). He appeared to be the local form, or name, of the old Polynesian god
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is so named because both the planet and the island are connected to
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was the 'seer' who has the vision to select who swam to Motu Nui. A
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was one of those who make the swim to the islet. Per Englert, the
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Easter Island: a stone-age civilization of the Pacific
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Easter Island: a stone-age civilization of the Pacific
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Index

Makemake (mythology)
Makemake (disambiguation)

birdmen
scoria
[ˈmakeˈmake]
Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui mythology
Easter Island
humanity
Tangata manu
Moai
Tane
Rapa Nui
petroglyphs
Motu Nui
Haua-tuꞌu-take-take
Haua
The Lost Gods of Easter Island
David Attenborough
Toromiro
Tahiti
trans-Neptunian
dwarf planet
Makemake
Easter

Petroglyphs
Orongo
birdmen

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