Speaker 3
He's not my mate, by the way. I just, he's a specifically not to be associated with me,
Speaker 1
yea. And the states. The famous thing, right? States, the big heads near easter island. And there's a thing about the big heads that they tend to be clustered near the areas where you can get this water. And so some people think that maybe they were kind of a make to tell you where the best places to get a little bit of drinking water. Recently realized that the position of the statues coincides with, particularly these areas of fresh water springs, and even inland, it coincides with places where you'd be able to get well and get some fresh water. It makes sense, if you're going to sign post anything, as a bunch of rural islanders, you probably sign post water,
Speaker 2
don't you? That such big sign post. That's the thing, it's an amazingly, it's a so much effort to go to to flag there is water here. But
Speaker 3
it was kind of that thing though, wasn't it? Like there's a thousand of them on the islands. You know, they'd make it up in this hill bit where they used um volcanic rock and ash that it was called tough, and they would carve, and then they would drag down and slide down with an amazing sort of hit rate of not damaging them as well, which is pretty extraordinary given their size. You know, there's people who've gone and visited and seen broken ones, but on average, it was said that they could just bring them down, these giant structures, and walk them to where they needed to be. And some of them would be, as you say, it would be facing water. Some would be facing inland to protect the land. Some the his seven in particular, which were meant to represent seven different polynesian tribes that had come over. So a group of people facing the direction of which they all originated from. We don't know if that's true. That's just a taste theory on the
Speaker 1
island. Yeah. The big question is, when they were transporting them down, did they slide from the top of the hill on the moil?
Speaker 2
They were sledges on the on the moi?
Speaker 1
That's a cool moi. The statues,
Speaker 2
oh, i'm sorry. I thought you meant that the statues slide on. Yeah, yeah, no, but they, they might have been, the statues might have sledge. That's one theory, um hum