Ch6-52
Othosmops on March 10, 2025
(russian):
Panel 1:
MIIKO: These anecdotes are quite entertaining, but you're getting carried away and ramble on.
Could you be a bit more brief!
Panel 2:
BRUNO: Apparently there was a drought that convinced more than a critical mass of matatoas that the whole drudgery of ancestor worship was quite worthless. However, this conviction did not prevail in all tribes at the same time. In any case, some tribes overthrew their chief priests and stopped building moai and their hats.
At the same time, some tribes went to war with each other.
Panel 3:
BRUNO: It was probably in this context that cannibalism occurred.
VILIS: How low can you go -
BRUNO: Stop! There's no point in condemning these people with your moral standards.
Sure, cannibalism is an absolute taboo for us, but that doesn't apply to the Polynesian island societies. They had other taboos. On the Marquesas Islands, where the Rapa Nui people came from, cannibalism has been proven.
GISELLE: If you drop a nuclear bomb on a city and zen zousands slowly perish from radiation sickness or incurable burns or cancer, zet's at least as revolting.
IntotheAbyss at 8:38AM, March 12, 2025
"That's at least as revolting" is right! From REPO MAN "You ever hear of the neutron bomb? Destroys people - leaves buildings standing. Fits in a suitcase. It's so small, no one knows it's there until - BLAMMO. Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead. So immoral, working on the thing can drive you mad. That's what happened to this friend of mine. So he had a lobotomy. Now he's well again." Great page, Othosmops!
Othosmops at 9:30AM, March 12, 2025
Yes, it's a good thing to be back to full glory after such fatal entanglements.
jerrie at 3:50AM, March 11, 2025
I'm with Bruno. we can drop horrific nuclear bombs.We can refuse to do anything to save our earth, our HOME.We go to war,and kill countless fellow Humans...then say cannibalism is evil.
Othosmops at 2:49PM, March 11, 2025
Vilis, Bruno and Giselle basically represent three different points of view. In addition, the usual animal protein source of other Polynesian islands was absent on Rapa Nui. The lack of fish around the island could only have been compensated for by boats, which would have required trees that had long since been felled.
plymayer at 8:49AM, March 10, 2025
Any one got some ketchup or mustard? A little hot sauce?
Othosmops at 9:43AM, March 10, 2025
Unfortunately, the spice supply on the island was also rather poor - perhaps that's why they wanted to devour the French lieutenant raw.
bravo1102 at 1:21AM, March 10, 2025
You get hungry enough, anything can be food. You rather try to digest shoe leather or the person who just died from starvation? And people on Easter Island didn't have any shoe leather.
Othosmops at 9:40AM, March 10, 2025
They had chickens. That was pretty much the only animal protein they had left. Apart from human flesh