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The Easter Island Tablets: Decipherments

A. Carroll


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

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three others. Then these united tribes went to Ympris with the chief of the Yntaga, and the Changos, and part of the clan of the royal bands. They afterwards joined the Sun-people of Puna. Some remained with the Chief Hualla and his clan, others joined the Sun-people of Puruha, and of Puruhua; some passed to the Eagle chief of the Manchua, others were with the Lican ancestors' Sun's fires; while others were among the coast-lands people, and among the sacred women, the mothers of the Sun-peoples, and they extended to the Purumacua, near the Mauli River of the coast. Thus among the Sun's peoples' ancestors are found these Yntaga, Changos, Yngayncusi, Huascas, the women of whom Ata afterwards punished, and overwhelmed, and ended the ancestral songs of their women of the coast. Upon the coast were some of the clans of the Chief Hualla, and those of the rulers of Runahuanca, and the Chincha. The sacred, loved tribe was for eight years oppressed by him."

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