Türkçe - Türkçe
moai teriminin Türkçe Türkçe sözlükte anlamı
- Paskalya Adasındaki devasa heykellere verilen ad
- Büyük Okyanus'ta yer alan Paskalya Adası'ndaki taştan yapılmış devasa insan heykellerine verilen ad
İngilizce - İngilizce
moai teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı
- One of the large stone heads on Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
- moai figure
- Small wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to represent ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two types: moai kavakava (male), with a beaklike nose and goatee and occasionally an animal or a human figure incised on the head; and moai paepae (female), which have a flat, relieflike quality and large eyes. They were sometimes used for fertility rites but more often for harvest celebrations, when the first picking of fruits was heaped around them as offerings