I was reading the Popol Vuh (the sanitized version, obviously - not the original) the other day, and I was interested to see how few generations there were linking the Gods and the Spanish conquerors. Combined with the official date of the founding of Tenochtitlan in the 14th century, it makes the Mayan civilization look very late, especially considering that Tenochtitlan was supposed to have been a replica of Atlantis/Ixtlan.
Anyway, I remember having read that each Easter Island statue represents a chief, and then the ‘article’ below says there’s more than 1,000 of them. But I don’t know if the heads represent a single line of chieftains, or even whether it really is only chieftains who are commemorated by them. It’d just be such a handy measurement of the age of that culture if we knew:
Other interesting features of this article are: The blaming of Homo Patsyensis, a.k.a. you and I, for all the ills befalling everything, everywhere; the fact that nobody has considered asking the natives about their own history; the obviously BS notion that the statues were rolled around on wood; the seeming attempt to destroy the figures, and last but most important - the note at the end that mentions there was an official cause given for the fires that damaged the volcanic rock (yeah - I buy it), but that it has since been deleted because the cause is still not really known. Plus they mention the fact that nobody knows the true extent of the damage because of Covid restrictions.
So, they weren’t able to take photos of the damage?
Puh-leeeeeeeeeze. To me, this reads more like, “We’re not finished damaging the stones yet, but when we are we’ll let you know, and rest assured when we finally settle on an official cause of the fires that caused the damage, it’ll be you who’s to blame, so you might as well just take the boosters and die to atone for your sins.”
Gross.