The Intriguing Secrets of Easter Island"

If they hadn't been painted and almost naked, wearing only loincloths, we would have taken the Easter Islanders as Europeans."  

 Captain of the Spanish Navy, Felipe González de Aedo.

On April 6, 1722, the Dutchman Jacob Roggeben, commanding three ships while searching for the mythical island where the English pirate Captain Davis buried his treasure, accidentally found an island which he named Easter Island. Only 48 years later, in 1770, a Spanish mission arrived to take possession of the island under the command of Captain Felipe Gonzáles de Aedo.

Hypothesis

The islanders have been carving wooden sculptures known as "kava kava" since time immemorial. But why these sculptures? What motivated them to suddenly change from the basalt and volcanic tuff moai to these small wooden sculptures? Why sculptures with cadaveric appearance and very different from them in human genetics? The Kava Kava have beards. It's worth considering that the moai also lack Polynesian genetic traits.

My Hypothesis

It appears that the basalt moai were not made by them. It's impossible to carve basalt without something harder, and there's nothing harder on that island. The volcanic tuff moai could have been made with materials from the island, as there is basalt there, but I don't believe the current civilization made them. The current civilization that inhabits the island completely owns the "Kava kava" sculptures, as islanders can be seen carving these small artifacts to this day. Here's a historical evidence: In 1519, the Magellan expedition, culminated by Sebastian Elcano after the death of Ferdinand Magellan, set sail with 5 ships and 256 sailors. Only one ship, the "Nao Victoria" with 30 men, managed to circumnavigate the globe. Of the 224 others, many died, some got lost, and some ended up in the stomachs of natives. In 1526, the second expedition, with one of its captains being the experienced Captain Juan Sebastian Elcano but commanded by Noble Jofre Garcia de Loaiza, set sail with six ships and a frigate, specifically built for this objective. The expedition was a total failure; of the seven ships, only the fate of three was known, the others were lost and not even known where they went. Of the eight ships lost in the two expeditions sponsored by King Carlos I and culminated in the first when this King was Emperor, two ran aground, meaning they were seen sinking; one returned to Spain; the frigate Santiago reached Mexico, but the others were lost in the middle of nowhere, not even knowing where, according to Sebastian Elcano in his account of the "Magellan" expedition. Referring to the first loss, he said: "We saw it before reaching what is now called "Cape Horn" and from there, we never saw it again. In the second expedition led by Jofre García de Loaiza, six ships and a "Skull" departed, only four crossed the Strait of Magellan, one returned to Spain from present-day Argentina, but as soon as the three ships and the Skull set sail into the Pacific, they were hit by a terrible storm, separated forever; the Skull "Santiago" sailed to Mexico. Two reached Polynesia, but the third, called "San Lesmes," was lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Did it reach Easter Island which was on its route? We can only speculate. The Kava Kava Moais clearly tell us who they represent; they are clearly shipwrecked with the attire of Spanish soldiers.

Two Hundred Years Later

What the Spanish Captain Felipe González de Aedo recounted in his logbook happened. There is evidence to suggest that these Easter Island natives with European genetics were nothing more than descendants of shipwreck survivors from either of the two expeditions recounted. There is also the possibility that they were descendants of English pirates who may have hidden their loot there.

BUT WHY ARE THERE NO WHITE MEN ON THAT ISLAND TODAY

 In 1862, the inhumane individual we today consider a hero in Peru, Miguel Grau Seminario, was a member of a gang of criminals who, on the edge of 32 Peruvian ships, headed to this island and others in Polynesia to capture their inhabitants and enslave them on guano islands. In the case of Easter Island, they almost exterminated its population, leaving only 111 inhabitants. That genetic line was lost there, but there is evidence today to corroborate my hypothesis; the bones of those shipwrecked individuals are there.

WHERE ARE THOSE BONES?  

On the island of the 1010 discovered moai, 1003 face inland, but 7 face the sea, and underneath those moai are graves; there lie the bones of a few humans. The platform on which these moai are erected is clearly of a less sophisticated technique than the Vinapú platform (photo). In my opinion, the shipwreck survivors could have made the platform to build their tombs underneath; they moved the moai and placed them on the platform. Only seven moai are in this condition; surely it was the number of shipwreck survivors, and they look at the sea, they look at the land they came from, and they had the hope of returning, which never happened. The Kavakava moai are nothing more than the representation of these shipwreck survivors; they must have arrived on the island in that condition. Another possibility is that they represent the 7 university laws.

Credits Extracted from the essay that I will soon make available to the international archaeological community, entitled: "How did they move the megaliths of Easter Island." Willy Claudio Linares Centurión.

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