Thor Heyerdahl - Osterinsel / Easter Island 1954

[@tomwuellner5478]

Hi, nice movie. Does anyone know where to see the complete film or where to purchase in this or any language? Tom

[@teressakarr3610]

I know how they moved the statues. They used beeswax. The vein they left on the back after removing them from the quarry served as a device that they inserted along a tract that resembles a dimmer switch. A cushioned pathway was constructed using Palm leaves saturated with beeswax, therefore a frictionless surface. They easily slid them down the mountain. Once on more level ground they strapped on wedges of compressed beeswax under the angled space in the front base to move them to the platform. To onlookers at the base of the mountain it would appear that the statues were walking. The people of Easter island seem way to smart to have relied solely on brute force . Once the statues were in place they carved off the vein at the back and levelled the base.

[@teamcrumb]

the Polynesians that showed Thor around the Island are not the original easter islanders. Natives living today, or back in the 1950's didn't just do what other ancient cultures did just because it was done somewhere in their region (Polynesia covers a vast amount of ocean and Islands). The Easter Islanders cut down all the trees to roll the massive stone sculptures to where they wanted them situated and that is why their way of life diminished, lack of wood. (Ps: 'lack of wood' is not a sexual euphemism). amen

[@420protoman]

the natives showed him and told him how it was done in the 1950s , today the show ancient alien makes up lies and tries to say there are legends of space gods that built them.... wrong.

[@kolokamari]

If indeed the natives showed them how to do it why have'nt any new ones been created yet,or since the original ones??

[@joeborsethborseth1865]

Ancient aliens.....