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Rapa Nui Sites

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Divinity Atlas. "Rapa Nui Sites." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/subcategories/sacredsite/rapa-nui-sites.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Rapa Nui Sites. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/subcategories/sacredsite/rapa-nui-sites

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-rapa-nui-sites,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Rapa Nui Sites},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/subcategories/sacredsite/rapa-nui-sites},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Sites significant to the traditional religious practice of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, most famously associated with the moai and the ancestral and ritual system that produced them. Sacred sites are grouped by tradition at a fine grain here, so a heading can be narrow without that saying anything about the tradition's own reach.

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What Defines This Grouping

The ceremonial sites of a single island: ahu, the stone platforms along the coast, with the lineage ancestor figures raised on them and the quarry at Rano Raraku that produced them, together with the later birdman ceremonial centre at Orongo. 2

Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui Sites

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Rapa Nui sacred sites

This small group holds a sacred site of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), the remote Polynesian island famed for its moai, the great carved stone figures raised on ceremonial platforms in honour of ancestral chiefs.

The browser will find the site the atlas classes here. The entry describes what is known of its religious significance in the tradition of Rapa Nui.

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