Sites significant to the traditional religious practice of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, most famously associated with the moai and the ancestral and ritual system that produced them. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.
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What Defines This GroupingThe ceremonial sites of a single island: ahu, the stone platforms along the coast, with the lineage ancestor figures raised on them and the quarry at Rano Raraku that produced them, together with the later birdman ceremonial centre at Orongo. 2 Learn More
Rapa Nui sacred sites
This small group holds a sacred site of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the remote Polynesian island famed for its moai, the great carved stone figures raised on ceremonial platforms in honour of ancestral chiefs.
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Rapa Nui sites: the atlas places Rapa Nui within the Polynesian tradition.
Source On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, 2nd editionPatrick Vinton Kirch
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology and Culture
Jo Anne Van Tilburg, British Museum Press, 1994on ahu, moai and Orongo
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Contact, 2nd edition
Patrick Vinton Kirch, University of California Press, 2017
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