Make-make
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Make-make in the Rapa Nui mythology of Easter Island, was the creator of humanity and the chief god of the bird cult "Tangata manu" (the bird-man). The huge statues on Easter Island may be connected to him.
[edit] References
- Métraux, Alfred. [1940] 1971. Ethnology of Easter Island. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 160. Honolului: Bishop Museum Press.