Presentation 5 — Easter Island Colossi

Dr C.A. Bartzokas · Atlantean Realities Series · 5 slides · White Lotus Day, Athens, 14 May 2006

The shortest of the seven presentations, and the most focused. Its subject is the moai of Rapa Nui — the Easter Island colossi, which the theosophical account treats as the surviving work of a race whose stature and capacities exceeded our own, rather than as an archaeological puzzle about log rollers and rope.

Three photographs establish the setting: the island landscape with palms and the ocean beyond, and two of the great ahu platforms with their rows of statues standing against open sky. The final slide is the one that does the work — a comparative diagram setting the principal named moai side by side and drawn to a common scale, each with a human silhouette beside it and the red scoria topknots shown in place. Tututui at Rano Raraku, Ko Te Riku at Tahai, the Ahu Tongariki figure at Hotu Iti, Paro at Ahu Te Pito Kura, and the unfinished terminal moai still in the quarry. Seeing them measured against each other conveys the scale in a way the photographs cannot.

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