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...huge stone heads, some of them weighing 50 tons, stare out at the empty Pacific with bland, archaic, sneering expressions. No one knows who carved these enigmatic faces-or why, or how, or when. Scholars have ransacked Easter Island, photographed its relics, cross-questioned its modern natives (there are less than 500)-aii to no avail. It has never seemed possible that the people of a small, barren island 1,100 miles from the nearest inhabited land (Pitcairn Island) should have carved several hundred weighty stone ornaments and lugged them up & over the rim of a volcano. Because of these...
...book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved...
Laboriously and learnedly, Dr. Wolff assembles his data. Quoting many languages (including several kinds of Polynesian), he describes the Easter Islanders as they appeared to early explorers. They were rather good-looking people, but by modern standards they were not nice. For one thing, they ate one another-enemies, friends, relatives "and neighbors-with gusto. Parents ate their children; children ate their fathers. They drew the line at mothers...
There are other strange beasts in the sea, says Ley, that zoologists do not recognize. For example, there is a turtle-like creature, much bigger than known sea turtles, called a niuhi in Easter Island and a moha-moha in Queensland. It may range all over. Last winter, says Ley, a large unknown animal tried to climb a sea wall in Florida, leaving great moha-moha like tracks in the sand...
...pupil can now have any religious instruction, even a Bible reading, on public-school premises.* At Stepinac every boy, whatever his course, has a 45-minute class in religion every day of his four high-school years. He attends regular services in the school chapel and auditorium. Just before Easter each year, the entire school will hold a three-day religious retreat...