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Title: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: abu iskander on May 18, 2012, 08:00:50 PM

Apologies if I'm the only one who didn't know already.   Thought this might interest people from a Pulp scenics point of view:

(http://blog.oneplusinfinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/easter_island_statue.jpg)

http://now.msn.com/now/0516-easter-island-statues.aspx (http://now.msn.com/now/0516-easter-island-statues.aspx)

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Hildred Castaigne on May 18, 2012, 08:12:42 PM

For some reason I find that a bit unnerving...  :?

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 18, 2012, 08:30:50 PM

It does look a bit photoshopped but if it's real  :o :o :o

cheers

James

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: YIU on May 18, 2012, 09:48:00 PM

Now the question is : male or female ?   lol

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: watchtower78 on May 18, 2012, 11:47:54 PM

Either way YIU it's totally stoned ;D

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: oxiana on May 19, 2012, 12:01:59 AM

Just you wait to see what they're actually standing on...  ;D

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Calimero on May 19, 2012, 12:31:59 AM

Quote from: oxiana on May 19, 2012, 12:01:59 AM

Just you wait to see what they're actually standing on...  ;D

lol

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Rabbitz on May 19, 2012, 03:20:30 AM

I thought they are all riding horses   lol

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Grimmnar on May 19, 2012, 03:51:00 AM

Quote from: Rabbitz on May 19, 2012, 03:20:30 AM

I thought they are all riding horses   lol

It ain't horses they are riding.  ;)

Grimm

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: carlos marighela on May 19, 2012, 04:54:00 AM

Of course they have bodies. It's just that being Chileno, they're very small.

All joking aside, I'm not sure why this is news. There are quite a number examples of Moai with bodies evident above ground. A thirty second google search for Moai will demonstrate that. There's even an example in the British Museum.

That photo does look a bit dodgy though.

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Colonel Tubby on May 19, 2012, 03:06:08 PM

I think the picture is genuine, at least the discover apears to be according a quick search of this new fangled interweb!

I think the pervious above ground part is just more weathered making it look like a bit of editing is going on.

However it does appear that this should be no surprise as other South Sea statues that are similar have bodies - I guess nobody thought to look before!  :D

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Steve F on May 19, 2012, 06:12:59 PM

Well, of course they have bodies.  Didn't you pay attention to Jack Kirby?  lol

(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz62/SteveFlanaganUK/2012%20-%2005%20-%20May/HOM851.jpg)

(Cover scan from kirbymuseum.org)

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Stu on May 19, 2012, 10:35:58 PM

Quote from: YIU on May 18, 2012, 09:48:00 PM

Now the question is : male or female ?   lol

I have been to Easter Island, they are male, very much so

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: Eisenfaust on May 27, 2012, 02:56:33 AM

The same is true for Mount Rushmore in the U.S.

(http://anyeventuality.files.wordpress.com/2006/05/Lee_Rushmore.jpg)

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: No Such Agency on June 01, 2012, 05:53:14 PM

Quote from: Grimmnar on May 19, 2012, 03:51:00 AM

It ain't horses they are riding.  ;)

Grimm

They're riding Shoggoths.

/Oops, wrong forum.

Title: Re: Easter Island heads have bodies?
Post by: mikedemana on June 12, 2012, 12:17:25 AM

Yep...at least when I visited there!

Some of my photos from Easter Island:

(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikedemana/images/ei_tonga.jpg)

(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikedemana/images/ei_tahai.jpg)

(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikedemana/images/ei_akivi.jpg)

I think it is this type of image from the Ranu Raruku quarry that makes people think they're just giant heads...

(http://home.earthlink.net/~mikedemana/images/ei_head.jpg)

Mike Demana