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Orongo (Rapa Nui: Oroŋo) is a
stone village and
ceremonial center at the
southwestern tip of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). It
consists of a
collection of low...
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southern Cook Islands,
especially on
Mangaia where the
Akaoro marae and
Orongo marae were
centres of his worship;
where cooked taro was
offered to him...
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birdman petroglyphs have been
found on the island,
mostly around Orongo."
Orongo, the site of the cult's festivities, was a
dangerous landscape which...
- Hakananai'a is a moai, a
statue from
Easter Island. It was
stolen from
Orongo,
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a
British ship and is now...
- Rapa Nui, and
climb the sea
cliffs of Rano Kau to the
clifftop village of
Orongo. In the Rapa Nui mythology, the
deity Makemake was the
chief god of the...
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retrieve an egg
would return to
Easter Island and
present it to his
patron at
Orongo, a
ceremonial village on the rim of the Rano Kau crater. The
sponsor would...
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served the
tagata manu and, upon
finding the
first manutara egg, took it to
Orongo [on the mainland]." The manu tara, or
sooty tern, was the bird that the...
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standing moai were on the
slopes of Rano Raraku, in Hoa Hakananai'a in
Orongo, and
Ariki Paro in Ahu Te Pito Kura.
Diamond and West's
version of the history...
- (gentlest, at the lake s****). From the
ruins of the
ceremonial village of
Orongo the
cliff face
drops to the
southwest at an
angle of 50° to the sea s****...
- in a raid on Te
Huaki in
revenge for the
murder of his father, Te-Ata-i-
ōrongo. He
probably lived in the
early seventeenth century. The
earliest record...
