Labels:book | lodestone | person | press | reckoner | sculpture OCR: Once volcanic, Gaster Jsland' craters add the serene landscape. We are sur prised to see so many moai pro jecting from the hill the crater which formed the guarry for most statues Some are not quarried and face upwards and sideways in the position in which they were being carved before being abandoned We just see the heads but est of their bodies lie beneath the soil Still suspicious islanders consider sacrilegious to the moai 79 them be lieving that spirit inhabits each one Some the platforms on which the moai stand are called ON altars. Because the intricate way the many-sided stones fit together on these walls, they have been com pared to the distinctive architecture Peru ancient past Easter quarry eways disrupt