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I wonder if, at the height of Rapa Nui civilization, their average citizen knew that there were vast continents full of unfathomable numbers of varied people ou
by raldi 4y ago
I wonder if, at the height of Rapa Nui civilization, their average citizen knew that there were vast continents full of unfathomable numbers of varied people out there, or if that seemed like hokey myth and most of them believed their island was the entirety of the world, or at least a significant portion thereof.
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoWell, Rapa Nui mythology speaks of the original settlers coming to the island, so one presumes they mostly believed that they came to the island from another, named location, so presumably they believed that there were or at least had once been other people somewhere.
- raldi 4y agoMy understanding is that they believed they simply came from another, similar island. I wonder if they knew that the world consisted of more than just a handful of tiny islands in a vast ocean.