Talk:Hanau epe

Original research?
This article contains speculations and inaccurate information. Hanau epe are a legend from Rapa nui people. Long ears probably lived in Easter Island, but their origin hasn't been discovered. A South American origin is a theory, but there are others too. Bye. Lin linao 14:55, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * This article uses sources of questionable reliability, tried to justify the speculations that contains... --Yakoo 19:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added some references and reworded the parts that seemed contentious. I'll leave up the references tag for a while, but it seems to me that the article reads fine now.--Quywompka 19:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, current redaction is better :). Bye. Lin linao 21:02, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Idem ;) --Yakoo 02:39, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Manu Motu Motiro Hiva ("Bird's islet on the way to a far away land")
JacquesGuy (talk) 11:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) "Birds' islet" can only be "motu manu," not the other way around
 * 2) Englert has it as "Motu Motiro Hiva." No "manu."
 * 3) Under the dictionary entry "titiro" Englert explains: this is very probably the reduplicated form of the verb tiro which, preceded by the particle mo, occurs in the old name of the islet Sala y Gómez Motu Motiro Hiva and seems to mean: Islet situated opposite Hiva.

Hanau Epe
Englert opines that they have nothing to do with "long ears," but that hanau epe is a misinterpretation of hanau eepe "the stout people" (well-fed, so, presumably, the ruling class) as opposed to hanau momoko "the thin people." JacquesGuy (talk) 11:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

The article's last sentence is nonsense.
"However, not exist evidence of fossil human DNA, indicating an extinct people of American origin in Easter Island."

Seems like a lot of edits have occurred without respect to the surrounding content causing a couple weird sentence fragments and odd tenses. I have no idea what to make the last sentence. Matthew Meta (talk) 14:42, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Look at the history page, find External tools, click on revision history search, put in some text, and you find that the sentence was added in that form last September.


 * However - I don't think anything in that section mentions the subject of the article, and thus doesn't belong in the article (something I learned the hard way - well, not quite, I didn't get blocked - when I was new. You can't put in arguments that don't actually discuss the subject. So, thanks for working on this, but I'm deleting it if I can't find sources mentioning the Hanau Epe. History of Easter Island could use some attention also. Dougweller (talk) 15:52, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Possible source
If anyone wants to work on this article, is a link to The enigmas of Easter Island: island on the edge By John Flenley, Paul G. Bahn, a RS. Dougweller (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:54, 7 August 2010 (UTC).

Roggeven typo
Unlikely Roggeven did any research in 1772; his wikipedia article says he died in 1729. Thor Heyerdahl's article says 1722.

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