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Re: the big rock...
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Tue, 27 Feb 2001 17:58:45 GMT
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"nick cameron" <nk@md.prestige.net> wrote:
> In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Jonathan Lill writes:
> > In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Arnold Staniczek writes:
> > > > > Mata Nui (who came up with these names!! )
> > >
> > > Mata Nui obviously refers to Rapa Nui....the Easter Island with its mythical • sculptures.....
> > >
> > Yeah, I've been hunting around for an online dictionary to see if they
> > didn't just make up words that sounded like the language of Micronesia or
> > Easter Island. I actually found one for Easter Island. The language is
> > called Rongorongo. The link is here:
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> > http://www.rongorongo.org/index.html
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> > However I couldn't find many words which bore similarities to the Bionicle
> > names. Also that page mentions that many Rongorongo words, including the
> > name Rapa Nui are actually Tahitian. But i can't find a Tahitian dictionary.
> >
> > The best I could find was that Tua (also capable of being spelled Toa) among
> > other meanings, designates warrior or Guerrilla and that a form of it can
> > also mean war games or playing at war. And I don't have time at the moment
> > to more exhaustively search.
> >
> > Thats all cool to me,
> >
> > Jonathan
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> Your kidding, right?
>
> From what I've heard:
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> There is an island called Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui), where there are
> mysterious statues of bunies, and Mata Nui is a mispronounced rip off (kind of
> like how Digimon is a Pokemon rip off). AND THIS ALL HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH A
> BIG EASTER EGG PAINTED LIKE A BUNNY RABBIT!
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> What I learned:
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> The turga worship easter eggs. They belive the big egg will be put into a deep
> sleep by a dirty peanut shell, who is protected by 4 moldy aquazone crystals.
> Then, 6 mighty lima beans come and destroy the peanut shell. Peace at last.
...Woudlnt that be peas at last? Didn't the little mouldy aquazone crystals pop
into millions of ultra tiny peas?
> What other great things did we learn from this thread?
...That giant rock bunnies should be worshiped :-)
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