ocr: EASTER ISLAND BIRDMAN HERE ARE MANY mysterious carved stones on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean, including about 150 carvings of a figure called the birdman, often shown with an egg in his hand. The birdman was linked to the cult of the god Make-make. Every year a ritual took place in a clifftop village in which tribal members selected their servants to swim the short but dangerous distance to Motu-nui, a small islet on which migratory sooty terns nested. Their aim was to find and bring back the first sooty tern egg of the year. The egg was believed to be the incarnation of the god Make-mak ...
