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.. In a global age, isn't it better to have names that are standard across languages and sampled from many languages?
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Is this a valid sampling?
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.. Just talk to some Rapa Nui people, and they'll tell you their mythology. ..
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If I were to randomly talk to a few speakers of Romance languages today, should I trust their account of the stories of the ancients? Oral tradition has its place, but is very prone to distortion in a small sampling, especially in a culture that has dramatically changed. If the accounts are so clear, it would seem that the petroglyphs might be decipherable.
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.. The reference to Easter Island links to the Easter discovery date for Makemake. ..
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An unfixed holiday in the Christian calendar that has extremely little reference to the ancient Rapa Nui people - a date that is not even agreed upon between churches, even if one were to assume one date is correct. Why the planet was originally called Easter Bunny just due to the discovery date I have no idea; at least Haumea looks egg-shaped.
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The were extraordinarily adept star-navigators, however, if you want to search for a justification in astronomical science.
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Very true (at least the ones who lived). There are other excellent sea-faring peoples, so then I have to ask the sampling question again. And did the world learn much from them? I don't know.