- You see the trees? - Yeah.
- And now the terrain. - Now we take it down.
Here we have round octagonal.
This octagon, it's about 100 meters.
Diameter.
This is road with embankments on both sides.
- An ancient road? - Ancient road, yes.
We found that many of these sites have been established
already 10,000 years ago.
We speak, uh, about hundreds of thousands.
This has changed totally our understanding of Amazonia.
In a historical moment, we are only 111 persons on the island.
- It's a big disaster. - For the culture.
It's a cultural disaster too
because you need many people to keep the knowledge.
Few people, few knowledge.
- Yeah. - And we lose a big part of our history.
The real name for the Moai is "te aringa ora o te Tupuna."
- Mm-hmm. -"The living face of our ancestors."
That is the name.
The idea is the Moai represent a real person.
And in life, this person is special, important.
This is because of our different social classes on the island.
- Yeah. - Some people have time for long earrings.
They have long nails too.
- It's a social class act. - Yes.
They have long fingers,
and some Moai have very long nails and curves too.
Mana is very important.
Mana is the energy.
All the people have mana.
Any rock, any elements in the universe have mana.
Yeah. People, when they die,
the family send to make a Moai with the intention,
the soul, the mana, the spirit of this person entering the Moai.
In the moment, the Moai is safe on the platform,
the te Puna, the ancestors, carve in the holes for the eyes first,
and later they put in coral for the white part
and sometimes obsidian or other rocks for the eyes.
- Right. Yeah. - In this moment, it's no more Moai.
Now it's Aringa ora o te Tupuna. The living face of our ancestors.
- Once it has the eyes? - Once it has the eyes.
- Right. - And from the platform, from the Ahu,
the Moai look in direction to the town and protect the family.
That is the function of the Moai.