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The Easter Island Tablets: Decipherments

A. Carroll


Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol.1 (1892)

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the ancestors of those on the coast of the Cañario, and of the Mucoas of the coast, all fought for seven years, but after six years the Cañario began to relax. The Guanacas and the Eagle tribes also, after six years attacking of the place of the Shakes, and after these six years of attacking, and by the aid of these Cañario, the freedom of the Snakes was stopped after these six years. Then the Maya clan threatened the Cañario, and the free homes of the tribes beloved, Then these Mayas turned and attacked the ancestor's clan of the royal bands, but the Cañario brought this freedom to an end after six years. Then the Scyri of Quito, a prince of the Sun-fires, overwhelmed the Mocoa clan, and the royal band of the coast-lands, after eight years of struggle with these and the Intagas of the coast-lands, and the Yambayas brought it to an end. The Intagas and the Chinchas derived their Sun-fires from the Royal-Charcas. Their princes were chiefs of the children of the Sun. The sacred Chinchas, among the coast people, the Sun's men, who as free men of the Chin had returned, had these sacred Chin, to the coast as masters: the chief body they were of the Cha-Rapas.
   Chimborazo had a handsome son, of his body the chief descendant, named Duchicela, they were of the sacred head-waters people of the Sun, some of whom went to the coast-lands, our ancestors, from their bodies. A temple was seven years in building by these ancestors, the war chiefs and the Mancus. They made it for their Sun-fire, for they were Sun's people, and of the Charcas.
   "Duchicela was the sacred head of the Sun's people, the Chimbu. Toa, who became his chief wife, she was water-borne, and in the front of all taken as the chief descendent. In the temple of Quito for seven years staying, this chief of the Sun's people the Chimbu; the lady Toa and all her tribes thus obtained. In these days, in the coast lands, the souls suffered by the dead bodies being gorged, of the Sun-families, by the Serpents who thus finished, these, the Sun's men of Sun's ancestors, being driven below by these Serpents; and the free mothers to wives turned by them. The Guaracas, the Rapas, the Intagas, and their sacred heads; the Snakes overwhelmed and their power brought to an end, and these holy ones were punished and overwhelmed; they were thus cruelly punished and overrun, these sacred heads, these holy war-birds of the tribes. The Sun-fires of the coast in those days, on the coast, were extinguished. (Some characters here indistinguishable.) The tribes dwelling near the head-waters were attacked by the Eagle tribes, and for five years were overwhelmed, and for another five years were watched; then the Rapas undertook this duty for five years; then the clan of the Royal-bands did so for four years. Then the Snakes attacked the Mocoa for four years. Then the chiefs of the Sun-peoples gathered the Charcas, the Eagle tribes, the Royal clan, and overran the Snakes for five years; then the Cha-

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