They loaded it provisions, they christened it Kon-Tiki and they leave following the and currents. Following in every detailed the findings and the descriptions we still have now days, they built a raft made of very specific trees founded in Peru and a sail. To prove their theory, though, they have to travel in the same way the ancient civilisation would have traveled: they were expert sailing men but very basic resources. Heyerdah and 5 other men (navigators, sociologists, radio technicians, engineers) prepare a journey through the Pacific Ocean. What do you do when you have a good theory with many clues but no scientific proof? You organize an expedition on a balsa log raft from Peru to Polynesia! “Then you try to go from Peru to the Pacific islands on a balsa raft!”. “It’s impossible” had been the usual answer Heyerdah received when he was explaining his theory to the science community. Plot (with few spoilers… but this is history!) These are the premises that push Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist, to demonstrate that the Polynesian civilisation is originally from South-America. There are incredible similarities between the findings in Polynesia and those of the white men civilisation of South America, that the Inca talked about: the colossal representation of their divinity and the monoliths the use of twisted ropes to remember information in absence of writings skills, like the ones from the Inca in Peru the white skin and long beard described both by the Inca after this men mysteriously “disappeared” and by those that landed on Easter Island for the first time in 1722 the god sun that Inca called Kon-Tiki and described as the highest priest of the disappeared white men. The almost only information were that these people were coming from a “stone age” culture, they had white skin and they were worshiping the god-sun. About this second invasion, at the beginning of the XX century, we knew very little. Studies show that the islands in the South seas have been colonized during two different waves: the first one around 500 a.C. A great chief that brought his people from a far away land to live on these Pacific islands. In the Polinesyan culture and Mytholgy, Tiki is considered the god, son of the sun. Review: “Kon-Tiki” – Thor Heyerdahl (1948)
0 kommentar(er)
