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The Easter Island Tablets: Decipherments

A. Carroll


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

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Rapas and the Eagle people overwhelmed them, mastered, and then watched them. Then the Mocoa joined Quilago and the Quispe; and the great mothers near the coast were released, and became again the great mothers of our peoples. Then the people of Quito, with the Guanacas, a beloved tribe, with people from the head-waters region, with their masters and the men, liberated the vaults and tombs of the Challu nation, that the Snakes had seized. Then they assisted the Mocoa; and the troubles in Quito were ended after five years; and the women were set free, and became the free mothers of the Sun's men. The Tuccumans' women were also liberated, and became wives of the Sun's men.
   "Then the handsome prince liberated more of the women from the Snakes of the coast tribes, and this prince made free these mothers; and in Quito the trouble ended, and the Challu being liberated, and the wars in Quito were ended for our ancestors, and the mothers of the Sun's people then there. Afterwards the Eagle clan attacked and overthrew the barbarians, and the chief of Snakes, and also the Mocoa chief, for the women and the mothers of the Sun's people had been seized in their dwellings by the barbarians who had overcome the beloved tribes, and seized their women as wives for these barbarians, and had gorged themselves upon the beloved tribe of the Cha-Rapa, whose tombs they had taken, and had mastered the free men, and had overwhelmed them had these Snakes, also the Fires of the Sun; but the Eagles came down and overthrew them, and released them, and also the sacred Chin people and their chiefs, who had been overwhelmed. These Chin people had long before been conquered and taken by the mountaineers, who had enslaved them __they were branches of the dead Quichua ancestors, many of whom were Collas; and this sacred people were overthrown and ended, so were their free mothers, and the dead bodies of these women were ill-used. They were of the mountain tribes, their chief spirits, their masters, the sacred dead bodies of these masters were insulted; but the Eagle warriors revenged the sacred masters of this Sun's people, and returned to the Sun's people the Sun's good times, and also upon the coast with the masters they loved; and they also relieved the Guanaca tribe, sacred and beloved, they returned the Guanaca, these Sun's people, to their homes, they continued the people of the Sun with the holy and loved bodies of their dead of the coast people. (Some characters indistinguishable.) Sacred loved and those of the Huayllas tribes of their Sun-fires, who masterfully watched these men until they had turned them to Sun people. The Cha-Rapas and their chiefs of the Sun people, and of the Sun-circles, and the Huangas, were by the barbarians, and those they regarded as their chiefs, from near Cuenca, who passed and took the beloved tribes punished and overthrew them, and made them their servants, and took the sacred

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