Talk:Aku-Aku

sprirtual guide

Throughout the book, "aku aku" has this meaning, as well as that of guardian spirit, as the native first consult their aku aku's before revealing ancestral objects to Heyerdahl or co-operating with his research. Heyerdahl is given two aku aku's to whatch over some of the artifacts given by the natives. Will look up page references. Cheers, :) MikeReichold 14:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Needs expansion

The article could use expansion to describe more of Heyerdahl's theories, as well as the countervailing material discovered by archeologists and researchers - to tell the current consensus. It might be useful to follow up with Jared Diamond's work in Collapse, which gives a reason for the decline of the Easter Island culture.--Parkwells (talk) 19:11, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Moving Bookshelves

"Aku-aku" can refer to moving a tall, flat-bottomed object (such as a bookshelf) by swiveling it alternatively on its corners in a "walking" fashion - I came up with this meaning for "Aku-Aku" and added it to the now pretty much defunct Langmaker website some time around 2001. I'm flattered that it's turned up in the article, but unless this use has really caught on without me realising, then it seems a bit out of place. - Purple Wyrm (talk) 03:11, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

OK, with your statement that this usage is not widely known, I will cut that sentence. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 19:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)