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/Home/Historical Studies/Indigenous Peoples Index/Africa Index/Dinka Easter - Crystalinks Votes:0 Easter and Related Holidays Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is a moveable feast in the church calendar observed by Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians. It is the Sunday before Easter Sunday, and a celebration of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his execution. The crowd greeted him by waving palm fronds, giving the day its name. In the Roman Catholic Church, it is now often referred to as Passion Sunday, and is the beginning of Passion Week (formerly called "Holy Week" officially, and still usually referred to as such by the general public). In the Passion Week liturgy on Palm Sunday palm fronds are blessed outside the church building and a procession enters, singing, re-enacting the entry into Jerusalem. In the Western church it must always fall on one of the 35 Read More Go to Site About - Education Votes:0 You are here: About > Education Education Education Arts & Literature Art History Classic Literature Contemporary Literature Music Education Plays / Drama Poetry Quotations Shakespeare History 20th Century History African History African-American History American History Ancient / Classical History European History Medieval History Military History Women's History Languages English as 2nd Language French Language German Language Italian Language Japanese Language Mandarin Language Spanish Language Schools & Programs Business School College Admissions Continuing Education Distance Learning Graduate School Homeschooling Private Schools Special Education Test Prep Sciences Animals / Wildlife Archaeology Biology Chemistry Environmental Issues Forestry Geography Geology Inventors Mathematics Read More Go to Site Archaeology's Dig -- A magazine for kids! Votes:0 Oops! 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Read More Go to Site barracuda-gssm.com Votes:0 Name: Contact Email Address: Contact Number (Optional) Domain Name You Are Interested In: Any additional comments / questions: Search Suggestions Free Sms Send Free SMS Send SMS Text Message Free Text Message Free SMS Message Web Site Internet Explorer Internet Fax Kiosk Emule HTTP Web Internet Fax Service Internet Search Engine Filter Personal Web Site Internet Television Make Money On The Internet ECommerce Web Site Web Fax Search Web Free Web Site Builder Cheap Web Site Web Based Training IPass Web Site Software Making A Web Page Web Meeting Kid Web Site Making Money On The Internet Web Site Maker Keyword Web Layout Web Printing Upload Picture Try searching these categories Free Contests Free Stuff Freestuff Free Magazines Freebies Free Premium Sms Sms Messaging Sms Message Free Cars Sm Read More Go to Site Chile - Easter Island Votes:0 CHILE Easter Island L ocated 3,700 km (2,300 miles) off the west coast of Chile, Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. It is also one of the most mystifying places on Earth, possessing a history that remains as unclear as it is evocative. Easter Island's tiny land area (only 117 sq. km.) and remarkable isolation make its discovery and settlement an event that seems as unlikely as it was mysterious. The original settlers seem to have been Polynesian, although there is substantial evidence that they were joined by a South American people early in the island's history. The island's native name, Rapa Nui, is Polynesian. Isolated for centuries from the outside world, the people of Rapa Nui developed their own distinctive culture, a culture perhaps best known by the moai, Read More Go to Site Chile - Easter Island Votes:0 CHILE Easter Island L ocated 3,700 km (2,300 miles) off the west coast of Chile, Easter Island is the world's most isolated inhabited island. It is also one of the most mystifying places on Earth, possessing a history that remains as unclear as it is evocative. Easter Island's tiny land area (only 117 sq. km.) and remarkable isolation make its discovery and settlement an event that seems as unlikely as it was mysterious. The original settlers seem to have been Polynesian, although there is substantial evidence that they were joined by a South American people early in the island's history. The island's native name, Rapa Nui, is Polynesian. Isolated for centuries from the outside world, the people of Rapa Nui developed their own distinctive culture, a culture perhaps best known by the moai, Read More Go to Site Easter Island - Rongo Rongo - Astronomy - Honolulu Tablet B 3622 Votes:0 Easter Island - Rongo Rongo - Astronomy - Honolulu Tablet B 3622 Learning & Dyslexia | Megalithic Astronomy | History of Civilization | Ancient World | Internet Law Teaching Learning Enquiry Research Quick Index Megaliths & Ancient Man History of Civilization Biblical History Egyptology L E X I L I N E EASTER ISLAND An Astronomical Zodiac Honolulu Tablet No. B 3622 Decipherment by Andis Kaulins The wooden Honolulu Tablet No. B 3622 One of the Easter Island Tablets (Honolulu Tablet No. B. 3622) - today in the museum in Honolulu - is an astrological Zodiac. The materials presented here are excerpted from the book, An Astrological Zodiac in the Script of Easter Island , by Andis Kaulins, the main pages of which are scanned online (click the link). The key to decipherment of this tablet is in Read More Go to Site Easter Island - Statues of Rapa Nui Votes:0 Untitled Page Read More Go to Site Easter Island and the Mysterious Moai Votes:0 hiring freelance writers | today's articles | sign in Home » History » Archaeology » Easter Island and the Mysterious Moai Easter Island and the Mysterious Moai © Jennifer Overhulse-King Articles in this Topic Discussions in this Topic Apr 11, 2000 Approximately 2200 miles from the nearest continental land mass, a volcanic speck of an island, only 46 sq. mi. in size, sits lazily in the middle of the South Pacific. In Spanish, the island is known as Isla de Pascua, to the people who live there, it is Rapa Nui. In English, we know it better as Easter Island. The Voyagers Come Speculation has it that ancient Eastern Polynesian voyagers inhabited the island around 400 AD. The archaeological record, however, puts the date somewhat later, at about 700 - 800 AD. For thousands of years prior to th Read More Go to Site Easter Island Home Page Votes:0 E aster Island has long been the subject of curiosity and speculation. How and why did its inhabitants carve and transport the massive statues which surround the island? What remains of this culture today, and what lessons can we learn from their legacy? This page is a resource for information on the Internet about Easter Island, also known as "Rapa Nui" and "Isla de Pascua". For a detailed index of links from this page: Click Here E aster Island is over 2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile), making it one of the most isolated places on Earth. A triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific - it is best known for the giant stone monoliths, known as Moai , that dot the coastline. The early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). Ad Read More Go to Site Easter Island monolith [This Dynamic Earth, USGS] Votes:0 One of the mysterious, imposing stone monoliths -- some standing 5 m tall and weighing 14 tons -- on Easter Island (Chile), carved by ancient Polynesians out of volcanic rock. Easter Island, which lies on the Nazca Plate close to the East Pacific Rise, is moving eastward toward South America by seafloor spreading at the fastest rate known in the world (see text). (Photograph by Carlos Capurro, U.S. Embassy, Santiago, Chile.) "Understanding plate motions" URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/monolith.html Last updated: 05.05.99 Contact: jmwatson@usgs.gov Read More Go to Site Engineers of Easter Island Votes:0 Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Email this article Engineers of Easter Island Volume 52 Number 6, November/December 1999 by Jo Anne Van Tilburg and Ted Ralston A team of laborers lever a nine-ton concrete moai into an upright position atop a replica ahu, or platform, on Easter Island. (Jo Anne Van Tilburg) [LARGER IMAGE] Since their discovery in 1722, the monumental stone statues on Easter Island, a 64-square-mile volcanic island in the South Pacific, have been among the world's most curious relics of antiquity. Carved from volcanic tuff, the statues, which weigh an average of 14 tons each, were erected some 500 years ago by descendants of Polynesian seafarers who had s Read More Go to Site Moai Statues Votes:0 World Wonders Atlas Wildlife Celebrities Movies Puzzles Die-Cast Magazines Search FAQ WonderClub.com The Moai Statues Easter Island has long been the subject of curiosity and speculation. How and why did its inhabitants carve and transport the massive statues which surround the island? What remains of this culture today, and what lessons can we learn from their legacy? This page is a resource for information on the Internet about Easter Island, also known as "Rapa Nui" and "Isla de Pascua". Easter Island is over 2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile), making it one of the most isolated places on Earth. A triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific - it is best known for the giant stone monoliths, known as Moai, that dot the coastline. The early settlers calle Read More Go to Site NOVA Online | Secrets of Easter Island | First Inhabitants Votes:0 --> First Inhabitants by Liesl Clark Ever since 1722, when Captain Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman and the first European known to have reached Easter Island arrived, scholars have debated the origins of the isolated population he found there. Did they sail from the east, from South American soil, or from Central Polynesia to the north and west? It is daunting to imagine a voyage to Easter Island from any direction, which would have taken a minimum of two weeks, covering several thousand miles of seemingly endless ocean. It is clear, however, that the original inhabitants must have come from a sea-faring culture, adept at building long-voyaging vessels and navigating the open seas. Linguists estimate Easter Island's first inhabitants arrived around AD 400, and most agree that they came from Ea Read More Go to Site NOVA Online | Secrets of Easter Island | Stone Giants Votes:0 --> Stone Giants On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ethnographers, archaeologists, and visitors to the island since the first European explorers arrived here in 1722. In their isolation, why did the early Easter Islanders undertake this colossal statue-building effort? Unfortunately, there is no written record (and the oral history is scant) to help tell the story of this remote land, its people, and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape. What do they mean? The moai and ceremonial sites are along the coast, with a concentration on Easter Island's southeast coast. Here, the moai are m Read More Go to Site RONGORONGO: Englert with Moai Votes:0 Home Gallery Catalog Father Sebastian pointing out details of an unfinished moai at the Rano Raraku quarry. From: Island at the Center of the World by Father Sebastian Englert. Photograph by George Holton, reproduced without permission . About the wallpaper Home Gallery Catalog Read More Go to Site Rongo­rongo Votes:0 RONGORONGO The Easter Island Tablets by Jacques B.M. Guy Overview Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui or Rapanui, with its statues and with its unique writing system (known as Rongo­rongo), has provided such fertile breeding ground for various crackpot theories, from sunken continents to alien visitors, that a short introduction is necessary. Rongorongo Tablet Easter Islanders are of Polynesian descent, and archaeologists concur to date their arrival around 400 AD. The island was stripped bare of timber by the eighteenth century. Yet in a letter dated December 1864, Brother Eugene Eyraud mentions the existence of hundreds of wooden tablets covered in hieroglyphics. Four years later, Monsignor Jaussen, Bishop of Tahiti, could only recover five tablets. Only twenty­one have survived, scatt Read More Go to Site Sacred Places: Easter Island Votes:0 Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe | Sweet Briar College Syllabus INTRODUCTION Sacredness Caves Stones Mountains Trees Water Forms in the Landscape BIBLIOGRAPHY © 1998 (text only) Chris Witcombe Sacred Places An exploration of how and why places become invested with SACREDNESS and how the SACRED is embodied or made manifest through ART and ARCHITECTURE Easter Island Laurie Evans Easter Island or Rapa Nui is a mysterious and much speculated site. It is one of the most remote places on Earth, located in the Pacific Ocean 2200 miles off the coast of Chile. The island is small, 63 square miles in size and has volcanoes that rise to 1500 feet. It is triangular in shape and the volcanoes are placed in each corner. click here for a map of Easter Island Easter Island is most known for it's unexplicable Read More Go to Site South American-polynesian Contacts At Easter Island Votes:0 Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 29: Sep-Oct 1993 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects South american-polynesian contacts at easter island In a letter to Archaeoastronomy , Jim Wheeler lists three bits of evidence suggesting that there were ancient contacts between South America and Easter Island. The Rapa Nui legends mention the arrival of strange men (about 25) from the east. Excavation of the ancient Easter Island tombs in 1981 revealed that some of the skeletons belonged to American Indians. The wall of carved stone at Vinapu on Easter Island is almost identical with the South American stone structures at Pisac and Machu Picchu. (Wheeler, Jim; "Comment on Ben Finney's Review," Archaeoastronomy , Read More Go to Site Troubled Times: Easter Island Votes:0 Easter Island Prior to July, 1995 ZetaTalk stated that the heads on Easter Island were moved with the same anti-gravity capability used to build the Great Pyramids. Nova reported on the Public Broadcasting System that this coincides with the oral tradition of the Rapa Nui folklore. Oral Tradition Surrounding the Easter Island Statues Like most oral traditions, Rapa Nui folklore has been passed down through the generations, and it is unknown whether the stories are based on historical fact. Most center on the mystical idea that the massive megaliths were moved using "mana," or divine power. Those who possessed mana were able to command the moai to walk to their designated places. Accounts of who actually possessed mana differ greatly. In 1919, Katherine Routledge, a British archae Read More Go to Site washingtonpost.com: African Lives Votes:0 RELATED ITEMS On washingtonpost.com See the many facets of Dinka life in our photo gallery . Internet resources and recent Post articles are available on our Sudan Page . On the Web A list of Francis Deng's work is online. Go to International Section Go to Africa Page Go to Home Page Dinka in Sudan Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps By Stephen Buckley Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, August 24, 1997; Page A01 Dinka bride-to-be Nyandier Duk-Fuel. (By Carol Guzy/The Washingon Post) The dancing begins at 7:25 a.m. as the thump of a drum splits the cool morning air in the Mangalatore camp for the displaced. A bull's horn wails. A swell of song fills the air. Young men run and leap, legs splayed, Jordanesque, heads rising above the hopping, singing Read More Go to Site

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