cannedtuna@lemmy.world

Hoa Hakananai’a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island. It was taken from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a British ship and is now in the British Museum in London.[1]

It has been described as a “masterpiece"[2] and among the finest examples of Easter Island sculpture.[3] Though relatively small, it is considered to be typical of the island’s statue form,[4][5] but distinguished by carvings added to the back, associated with the island’s birdman cult.[6]

The statue was identified as Hoa Hakananai’a by islanders at the time it was removed; the British crew first recorded the name in the form ‘Hoa-haka-nana-ia’ or ‘Hoa-haka-nama-ia’.[7] It has been variously translated from the Rapa Nui language to mean ‘breaking wave’,[8] ‘surfriding’,[7] ‘surfing fellow’,[9][10] ‘master wave-breaker’,[11] ‘lost or stolen friend’,[12] ‘stolen friend’, ‘hidden friend’[13] or ‘doing robberies/mockeries friend’.[9]

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Amazing. Thanks

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Honestly every time I see cuneiform I wonder how the fuck someone figured out how to read this shit.

🤜🤛

This was the cleanest least jpeg’d to hell version I could find that didn’t also edit the Nisan response to “kys”

That is a fun fact

You can’t truly experience a show until you’ve read it in its original Klingon.

Or it’s just nostalgia. MS Gundam Wing, Trigun, YuYu, DBZ, Tenchi, Bebop, all those Toonami era shows feel right dubbed. Tho watching stuff like DB Super I prefer the sub now.

Maybe some modeling putty like Green Stuff?

Ooh! Mind if I grab that Shadow of Mordor key?

Just saw someone else grabbed it

@olafurp@lemmy.world has been putting together a list

• Top left: Astolfo (Fate) identifies as a man

• Top middle: Felix (Re:Zero), male

• Top right: Saika Totsuka (My Romantic Teen SNAFU), male

• Middle middle: Rimuru (Reincarnated as a Slime), was male before

• Middle right: Hideyoshi Kinoshita (Baka and Test), male

• Bottom left: Hayate (Hayate, Combat Butler), male

I mean I didn’t make this, but every character in the captcha is actually a guy I believe. Ed is however a girl as she says.

It was perfect until that last line