Talk:Hanau epe
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[edit] Original research?
This article contains speculations and inaccurate information. Hanau epe are a legend from Rapa nui people. Long ears probably lived in Easter Island, but their origin hasn't been discovered. A South American origin is a theory, but there are others too. Bye. Lin linao 14:55, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- This article uses sources of questionable reliability, tried to justify the speculations that contains... --Yakoo 19:46, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- I've added some references and reworded the parts that seemed contentious. I'll leave up the references tag for a while, but it seems to me that the article reads fine now.--Quywompka 19:58, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Manu Motu Motiro Hiva ("Bird's islet on the way to a far away land")
- "Birds' islet" can only be "motu manu," not the other way around
- Englert has it as "Motu Motiro Hiva." No "manu."
- Under the dictionary entry "titiro" Englert explains: this is very probably the reduplicated form of the verb tiro which, preceded by the particle mo, occurs in the old name of the islet Sala y Gómez Motu Motiro Hiva and seems to mean: Islet situated opposite Hiva.
JacquesGuy (talk) 11:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Hanau Epe
Englert opines that they have nothing to do with "long ears," but that hanau epe is a misinterpretation of hanau eepe "the stout people" (well-fed, so, presumably, the ruling class) as opposed to hanau momoko "the thin people." JacquesGuy (talk) 11:00, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
