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The Easter Island Tablets: Decipherments

A. Carroll


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

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to suffer: the Snakes overwhelmed them, their women were taken, their Fires of the Sun extinguished. These Sun's people were injured, and their women. They were punished, overwhelmed, overthrown by these Snakes, who were the overthrowers. Many of the dwellers in the island of Puna were killed, punished, and overthrown. The Tocay were many of them killed; these were children of the Sun, and the men of this Sun's tribe were punished and overwhelmed, and their souls destroyed. These were of Quichua ancestry, but the Snakes overwhelmed them, as they did the head-waters' people, and those of Yanahuara, as also the children of the Yuncu, and the Challapampa people, and those from the Yngachungana, and the Cha-Rapa; their women and the Sun-fires. They were mastered, as were the Muzo people, the holy temple of the chiefs near Chungana of the Sun people. Not even the enjoyment of the souls of the dead could be free, but all were overwhelmed, punished, and overthrown. The Tschimu, the branches of the Tschimu, and the Hualla, who assisted to injure the souls of the dead; but by the Sacred Chief of Souls, and the acts of the Rapa people, these wicked ones were punished, and many overthrown and taken to Rapa, roped, tied, bound, and overwhelmed. The barbarians attacked the Huarca beloved tribe, the barbarians assaulted this loved tribe the Huarca, and their sacred temple with its Fire of the Sun, and the sacred and free Vestals fled to the vaults and to Puna off the coast, these women of the Sun, the sacred ones, being overwhelmed. Then the prince commenced an attack, lasting two years, and with the the Intagas it continued for two years; they continued to attack the four clans of the Manta__the Apechique, the Pichua, the Pampahuaci, the Passau__and also three tribes of the Chuns__the Chunana, the Chintay, the Collenche. The Snakes, the Manta had punished, and overwhelmed the tribes, and their rulers in Quito, the sacred and loved children of the Sun, and of the Sun-fires extinguished on the coast, and the masters, and the sacred warriors, and the ancestors of the Cha- Rapa = a Sun's people, with the Sun-circles of these Cha-Rapa. Then the prince and the officers, with the rulers of these loved tribes again recovered their freedom. Afterwards the Eagle chiefs overthrew the places of rest, having punished and overwhelmed the Guamachucos, and then attacked in the country of the upper-waters, the three clans and tribes, the Chunana, the Chintay, the Collanche, and overwhelmed the clans in a four years' raid, and the remaining tribes in an attack lasting two years. The masters of a loved tribe, the Picu, of the free Charcas, with the rulers of the Chincha men, and the Huamachacas, were engaged in a war in the coast-lands, joined in by the Guanaca in the coast-lands. The Huamachaca became captives of the Chimbri-men from the mountains; and the men of this tribe were forced to the coast, and thus overwhelmed and punished by the men of the Sun; but the

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