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So far no one has been able to explain why the Polynesians (if they were the sculptors) endowed the faces with shapes and expressions for which there was no model on the island: long straight noses, narrow-lipped mouths, sunken eyes and low foreheads. Perhaps, it seems presumptuous of me not only to reject Heyerdahl's theory that stone tools were used to make the statues, but to use the presence of several hundred stone implements to try to prove exactly the opposite, namely that the colossal statues could not have been made in that way. A small group of intelligent beings was stranded on Easter Island owing to a ‘technical hitch’. The stranded group had a great store of knowledge, very advanced weapons and a method of working stone unknown to us, of which there are many examples around the world. The strangers hoped they would be looked for, found and rescued by their own people. Yet the nearest mainland was some Days passed in inactivity. Life on the little island became boring and monotonous. The unknowns began to teach the natives the elements of speech; they told them about foreign worlds, stars and suns. Perhaps to leave the natives a lasting memory of their stay, but perhaps also as a sign to the friends who were looking for them, the strangers extracted a colossal statue from the volcanic stone. Then they made more stone giants which they set up on stone pedestals along the coast so that they were visible from afar. Then the islanders were left with a junk room of just begun and half-finished figures. They selected the ones that were nearest completion and year after year they hammered doggedly away at the unfinished models with their stone tools. But the some 200 figures that were still only sketched on the rock face defied the 'fleabites' of the stone implements. Finally the carefree inhabitants who lived only for the day—even today they are not very fond of hard work— gave up the thankless task, threw away their tools and returned to their primitive caves and huts. In other words, the arsenal of several hundred stone tools that had failed to dint the unyielding cliff was left by them and not by the original sculptors. I claim that the stone tools are evidence of resignation in the face of a task that could not be mastered. I also suspect that the same masters gave lessons on Easter Island, at Tiahuanaco, above Sacsayhuaman, in the Bay of Pisco and elsewhere. Obviously it is only one of other possible theories and it can be opposed by referring to the great distances. But then people would be omitting to take into account my theory—and I am by no means the only one to hold it—that in the remote past there No one knows who the sculptures are supposed to represent. Not even Thor Heyerdahl! In case that sounds incredible, here is my explanation— as usual one that seems fantastic. 2,500 miles away. Until suddenly and without warning salvation was there.