uthunter
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On this show, it was/is the first time, that I have heard, that any one professional had come out and speculated as to the meanings of several different types of monuments. The statement the archeologist, native to the island chain, stated seems reasonable, that the owl was a very efficient predator, and was seen mostly at night, thus it was revered by the island peoples. There had been owls on the islands several hundred years ago, and the indigenous people would have respected this creature, that may be why they carved the many different owl monuments. The owl monument was the most numerous of all the monuments in the island chain.
I agree that there would have been different meanings attached to the same monument depending on where you lived. It just struck me as a bit odd that there were owls carved in stone on the island chains, several hundred years ago, when Europeans visited the island chain; and the same or a similar style of carved owls could be seen in the many different parts of the world at the same time.
This just further reinforces my beliefs that there were sea faring travelers visiting the far reached of the world, thousands of years before what is the approved or accepted period of archeologists and anthropologists.
I agree that there would have been different meanings attached to the same monument depending on where you lived. It just struck me as a bit odd that there were owls carved in stone on the island chains, several hundred years ago, when Europeans visited the island chain; and the same or a similar style of carved owls could be seen in the many different parts of the world at the same time.
This just further reinforces my beliefs that there were sea faring travelers visiting the far reached of the world, thousands of years before what is the approved or accepted period of archeologists and anthropologists.