In the year 1722, Easter Sunday, at 6 pm. On board Afrikaanske Galei's ship, the sailors work normally. Four and a half months ago they had taken iron from Holland on a voyage of exploration and trade, and apart from a quick engagement with a large Spanish galleon, which he had left behind thanks to his superior speed, everything had gone to the liking of Commander Commodore Jacob Roggeveen.
Suddenly the watchman announces "land in sight". Approaching an island not marked on the map. With the dim light of dusk, they arrive in time to see on the coast, on long stone walls, huge giants that seem ready to avoid landing. Roggeveen sends anchor far from the coast and decides to wait for dawn to make a decision. When day breaks the Europeans have their second surprise. The giants remained stationary and with eyeglasses it was possible to see normal-sized people moving among them.
He had been frightened by statues. They then decide to disembark, after naming the island in honor of the date of its discovery. (Text taken from the book "Great Enigmas of Humanity" Luís Carlos Lisboa and Roberto Pereira de Andrade)
Colossal statues, measuring more or less 5 meters, reign on every island in the Pacific, defying science. How to explain the transport of the colossal statues, called Moais, no one has yet been able to say. The statues look north and northeast, south, south-west and southeast. The entire island is 170 km2 in extent, 3500 km off the west coast of South America. There are hieroglyphics all over the island and if they were deciphered they would reveal a lot about the culture of that time.
The following question remains:Who and what tools were used in the construction of those statues? Simply this question has been with us since the discovery of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. But if we think about it, the world is full of riddles for which we only have one answer, or we were helped by intelligent beings from other galaxies, or we had a great catastrophe from which we forgot everything and started over from scratch... The islet is of volcanic formation. , having a moderate relief, surface of 118 square km, with altitudes that vary from 200 to 500m. It forms part of the province of Val Paraíso in Chile, and constitutes Chilean Oceania. Always the same traces of impossibility, in the beds of the volcano, more than 200 Moais remained unfinished, which were neither finished nor distributed. Named "Te pita, te henua" (navel of the world).
There are three types of giant statues:
-The first statues are located on the beaches at the edge of the sea. Their number is about 200 to 260 and some are at a distance of more than 20 km from the volcano bed where they were modeled. These were installed in various numbers, on funerary monuments called "ahus" and facing the sea. Originally they were touched by a type of cylindrical hat called "Punkao", made with a reddish rock, taken from the volcano "Puna Pao".
-The second group is the ones erected at the foot of the "Rano Raraku". They are finished statues, but different from the others, as their bodies are covered in symbols. The eye sockets are not drawn and need a hat or "punkao". However, these are more enigmatic than the previous ones.
-The third group for years the best known of them all "tukuturi", which has the particularity of having legs, was compared to the statues of pre-Incan art creating serious doubts about the common thesis of the origin of these populations. The island however was abandoned for some reason... The workers abandoned their tools and workshops. As if the causes of this stoppage had been provoked by a natural catastrophe, like a tidal wave, by some invasion or epidemic.
Lightning Rod?
However, some scientists, in 1989, characterized the Moais as "FOR LIGHTNING", due to constant electrical discharges on that island. Even so, to whom is attributed the intelligence to produce "for lightning" at that time? So from my point of view, I even think that the moai were destroyed by lightning at that time, and their creators made the Punkao hats, so that the big statues wouldn't be damaged by the impact of the lightning... since the hats don't have a very creative format, without ornaments, I mean, very simple considering that the monuments have many details, they are rich in fine lines.
Below is the text taken from Jornal O Globo - World/Science and life - Ribamar Fonseca
" São Luís - The monolithic statues of up to ten meters high on Easter Island, in the Pacific Ocean, were built by the ancient natives to function as lightning rods and, in this way, protect them from the frequent electrical discharges in that region. This theory, already scientifically proven through research in the laboratories of the Federal University of Maranhão, it was raised by Professor Francisco Soares, who spent six months on the island studying the function of the mysterious Moai - the name given to the statues by the natives.
Soares, 31, who is an electronic engineer specializing in computing, discovered that the ancient inhabitants of Easter Island already knew in practice Gauss's Law, which they applied empirically, through the gigantic statues to protect themselves from electrical discharges. Gauss' Law determines the behavior of the distribution of spatial electrical charges on a dielectric surface. The hat on the statues' heads, made of porous volcanic material, absorbed the rays and prevented them from being destroyed. Until then, it was thought that the moai had only religious or aesthetic functions.
Dedicating himself, since 1979, to research on primitive computing equipment, such as the abacus, a table of calculations created by the Chinese, Francisco Soares arrived at the Inca civilization, which had the same technique with the quipu, made of threads. And in the wake of the quipu, Soares arrived at Rapa-nui, the native name of Easter Island, discovered in 1722, on an Easter Sunday, by the Dutchman Jacob Roageveen. He conducted his research from four questions; Why were moai built? Why were they tall and elongated in shape? Why the hat? Why did they only occupy the coastal strip of the island?
Until then the gigantic statues had been studied only by anthropologists and ethnologists, who saw in them a mystical meaning; they would have magical powers (the natives said that whoever touched their head would die) and at the same time, they would be a tribute to their ancestors. Francisco Soares, however, concluded that the statues, arranged only around the island, had the function of lightning rods, attracting electrical discharges. The center of this island, covering 179 square kilometers and about four thousand kilometers from the coast of Chile, was thus protected. There were housing and subsistence crops.
With the help of Professor Antônio Oliveira, a master in physics and condensed matter at the Physics Department of the Federal University of Maranhão, Soares recreated in the laboratory the conditions necessary for the simulation of electrical discharges. He used a high voltage source, a hood to make a vacuum, and miniature statues, made of the same material as the Moai, arranged on a model of the island. In this way, it was proved that the statues with hats attracted all electrical discharges, which were absorbed and distributed by the body, without damaging them. What's more, in the dark, the hats, charged with energy, were illuminated, which, according to him, explains the magical powers attributed to the moai.
Soares concluded, in view of this, that the ancient natives of the island had mastered the practical knowledge of Gauss' Law, as the lightning rod function was only possible because of the shape of the statues' hats and the porous volcanic material with which they were made, different from the material of the body. If it were another material used, they would be destroyed by the first electrical discharge. The young scientist from Maranhão, who gave his work the title of empirical application of Gauss' Law and electrical diffusion in the moai of Rapa-nui, returns to the island in July for further research."
Rapa-Nui