I propose a hypothesis to be verified
by scholars and the learned ones
in ocean themes and in island matters:
those of Easter, of Yap and the Marquesas.
Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean
with their strange and much disturbing totems:
that are the "moai”, shapes in stone carved
with the mystery of what could be their origin ...
... and the Island Yap in the Ocean Pacific
distant from the other about three thousand miles;
where its ingenious system of finance
caused sensation throughout French Polynesia;
that they "invented" to create their richness:
massive stones brought from very far away
defying typhoons in canoes rather faint
which gave to the adventure enormous merit
and thus commercial value was derived
-because of the difficulty of getting them-
from that other intangible value: bravery
that those sailors exhibited so well.
Is also known that some of these tribes
-inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands-
went to the sea, to the fearful ocean,
only guided by necessity and the stars.
Matches the legend that tells about how clans
rivals for power in the nation of "Heva"
make bloody wars between each other
finally expelling the losers from the land;
those must leave for other territories
of course by sea -no alternative was left-
amidst typhoons, great perils, risks and dangers
beyond the known, to the infinite horizon.
Undoubtedly many of them died in the attempt
after sailing the immensities of waters
(the Pacific Ocean amounts aprox to a third
of the entire surface of our blue Earth planet).
Today there are signs that thousand years ago
a bunch of these brave seafarers
led by a chief (named “Atu Matuna”)
reached "Rapa Nui”, that is the Easter Island.
and thus was brought to that lone territory
some of the goods of their civilization;
valuable things, foremost are to be mentioned:
their blood, sweet potatoes and the currency.
The blood: that now with modern DNA testing
taken from the old ladies and the old men
in both places so distant from each other
their connection convincingly demonstrates.
Sweet potato: a fruit that was indigenous
and it can never (as a coconut would)
float for months, it must be embarked;
reached Easter Island, then later went to America ...
The currency: -and here comes my thesis-
was here also made in the resemblance
of huge yapense stones of happy memory
and of so good result in Micronesia economy.
Are perhaps those so mysterious shapes
called "moai" -huge faces in carved stone
characteristic of the Easter Island-
a mere transcript of their financial values?;
Maybe these people devoid of gold and silver
sought valuable things by other means:
in the rarity and worth of somewhat
difficult to obtain; those "behemoths” perhaps?
… giving them faces, as we do also
in printed banknotes and in minted coins;
so they carved here the volcanic tuff
transporting finally their enormous weights.
There is no doubt, the thing has a great merit,
and it is not within the reach of a nobody
that can easily print hitting a button
(so money inflation therefore is kept away);
if anyone wants fish go and get wet;
reach the volcano and choose some block
of a size according to the greed,
scrub it tastefully and haul it afterwards
for a long way to take it to the "bank"
(here terraced fields facing the ocean);
nobody could make any embezzlement ever
stealing them because of their large weight.
With such a wealth ... if you marry a daughter
give her a dowry with a large sized face,
with a medium one she can acquire a hut
and pay with any small the "architect".
Everyone there to some extent had some
deposited in bank of hundreds in the banks,
which today represents an attraction for tourism,
thus the capital accumulated by the ancestors
leaves substantial revenue as interest today.
© albertotrocóniz / 13
Text from: "AS I SEE IT"
Image from: "PHOTOFILTERED"
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