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Menka: Village of the Breadfruit Goddess

The Ancients

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Is There a Top Knot?

Yap is the island of stone money, right? And if you think of yap and you think of those big aragenite or limestone, those big white wheels that have a hole in the midle of em ther described as stone money. But given the connections to yap, maybe we can say it's perhaps an imitation of stone money from coseroi. So at one point there was this huge bazaar where people would bring fish, bread, fruit, whatever, and place it there for the people living in perhaps that community. It seems to have been such an impressive sight when it was at its height. I believe i it was truly an incredible sight. The lower temple

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