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Why Did Easter Island's Civilization Collapse?

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The Bird Man Cult

There was an idea that if the first person, it was basically a contest, whoever finds the first egg of this turn of the year gets to be the bird man. So they would go scrounging around, climbing up the volcanoes in the mountainous areas. Second prize was you would stab yourself with a spear, supposedly.

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