HOW TO
MAKE WALKING MOAI
What is Miro Manga Erua?
I got a book titled
"AKU-AKU" "THE SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND "
by THOR
HEYERDAHL English edition.
This
book is very rare, so I had only Japanies edition befor.
In this
book, Heyerdahl ask Mayor Don Pedoro about moving method of
moai.
AKU-AKU
THE
SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND
THOR
HEYERDAHL
p132-p133
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"Don
Pedoro, Mayor,"I said, "now perhaps you can tell me
how your
ancestors moved the figures round about on the island."
"They
went of themselves, they walked," the mayor replied glibly.
"Rubbish,"I
said disappointed and slightly irritated.
"Take
it easy! I believe that they walked, and we must
respect
our forefathers who have said that they walked.
But the
forefathers who told me that not seen it with their
own
eyes, so who knows if their forefathers did not use a
miro
manga erua?"
"What
that?"
The mayor
drew on the ground a Y-shaped figure with
crosspieces,
and explained that it was a sledge made from
a forked
tree trunk.
"At
any rate they used those to drag the big blocks for the
wall,"
he added by way of a concession. "And they made thick
ropes from
the tough bark of the hau-hau tree, as thick as the
hawsers
you have on board. I can make you a specimen. I can
make a
miro manga erua too."
Miro
Manga Erua means 'Two
wooden fingers' in Polynesian language.
Miro = wood
(like rakau)
Manga = toes, fingers (in
the tropics of
Erua = Two (rua = two, e =
how many there is)