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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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birdman petroglyphs have been
found on the island,
mostly around Orongo."
Orongo, the site of the cult's festivities, was a
dangerous landscape which...
- 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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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...
- Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai, a
statue from
Easter Island. It was
taken from
Orongo,
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a
British ship and is now...
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Easter Island,
climbed the
cliffs to
Orongo and
presented the egg to
their sponsor in
front of the
judges at
Orongo. This gave
their sponsor the
title of...
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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...
- (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****...
- The
Birdman cult
which replaced the moai cult
worship was
concentrated in
Orongo at a
ceremonial site
called Mata Ngarau. The
location is at an elevation...
- 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...
