{"id":5248,"date":"2013-08-28T00:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginaisladepascua.com\/?page_id=5248"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T08:59:36","slug":"moai-easter-island-statues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imaginarapanui.com\/en\/rapa-nui-culture\/moai-easter-island-statues\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Island statues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moai Statues<\/h1>\n
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The moai or Easter Island heads or Easter Island statues, represent the most important pieces of Rapa Nui<\/a> art and they have become its trademark. However, in spite of their abundance, there are around 600 moai distributed throughout the whole island and 397 are in the Rano Raraku<\/a><\/strong> quarry, there are still plenty of unanswered questions regarding these stone giants.<\/p>\n

Even though oral tradition<\/a> states that it was Hotu Matu\u2019a, or the seven explorers that reached the island before him, who brought the first Moai to the island, the most accepted theory is that it was the first Polynesian villagers who started sculpting stone once they were settled.<\/p>\n

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