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🗓️ 7 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Destiny. |
0:15.8 | Now here's your host, Cliff Dunning. |
0:20.1 | Hey, how you doing? This is Cliff, your host of Destiny, and I hope you're doing well today. |
0:25.1 | I have been reviewing a number of excellent photographs taken on Rappanui when we were |
0:32.0 | visiting the quarries. And one of the most outstanding photographs, actually quite an anomalous photograph is of a |
0:39.6 | figure very close to the one of the quarries that is sitting on his knees facing up hands at his side |
0:48.7 | and he has a beard and it's the only rapanui excuse me, the only Moai sculpture of its kind in the entire |
0:58.8 | island. |
0:59.3 | There's no other sculpture has been found like this. |
1:02.6 | And it's very rarely discussed simply because it's such an strange position for one of |
1:08.9 | these figures to be sitting. |
1:10.8 | And also, it's about a third of the size. |
1:13.3 | It's only about, I'd say, oh, maybe eight, ten feet at the most, tall. |
1:19.5 | He's about a third of the size of the typical moai, which are, you know, 14 to 20 feet |
1:25.5 | in height and weighing a half a ton, you know, extremely heavy |
1:31.5 | volcanic rock. This guy is volcanic as well. And there's a lot of other fascinating elements to him. |
1:40.3 | You kind of wonder, what is he looking at? Well, what we don't really know is if the people who |
1:48.9 | settled in the Rappano, East Island, were also into cosmology, studying the stars, |
1:56.3 | we had a number of opportunities during the evening to look at the sky at night, and it was |
2:03.2 | amazing. |
2:04.5 | It was like the lights were turned on, and every star was available. |
2:09.5 | The Milky Way was in its full splendor, beautifully splashed across the skyline, and these early settlers must have seen this with great clarity. |
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