#rapanui

I've just run into another set of works that blow Diamonds very cynical and apocalyptic use of the history of Easter Island in his books, right out of the water:

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/rethinking-the-fall-of-easter-island

Ancestros comunes, pero distintas latitudes."

-Memo Isaí Hernández Lara

Mictlantecuhtli está representado con el hígado colgando de la cavidad torácica. En esta víscera, estrechamente relacionada con el Inframundo, residía otra de las entidades anímicas o almas: el ihiyotl.

Fuente:Museo del Templo Mayor del Centro Historico

Here are parts 1 and 3. I have also made other posts featuring untranslatable German and Spanish words.

Cook Islands Māori: papakata (having one leg shorter than the other)

Czech: prozvonit (to call a cellphone just long enough to make it ring once, so the other person calls back and the caller doesn't spend money on minutes)

Finnish: tokka (a large herd, especially of reindeer)

French: rire dans sa barbe (literally “to laugh in one’s beard,” to laugh quietly while thinking about something that happened in the past)

German: Schilderwald (literally “forest of signs,” a street crowded with so many road signs that you become lost)

Hindi: चाय-पानी [chaay-paanee] (literally “tea and water”, money given to someone, often a bureaucratic worker, to get things done)

Inuktitut: ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ [iktsuarpuk] (the frustration of waiting for someone to show up)

Italian: culaccino (the mark left on a table by a wet glass), gattara (a woman, often elderly and lonely, who devotes herself to stray cats)

Japanese: 哀れ [aware] (the bittersweetness of a brief and fleeting moment of transcendent beauty), 木漏れ日 [komorebi] (the sort of scattered, dappled light effect that occurs when sunlight shines in through trees), 教育ママ [kyōiku mama] (a mother who pushes her children to excel academically), 積ん読 [tsundoku] (the act of buying books and leaving them unread, typically piling them up with other unread books), 侘寂 [wabi-sabi] (accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay)

Korean: 원 [won] (the reluctance on a person’s part to let go of an illusion)

Kwangali: hanyauku (the act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand)

Luba-Kasai: ilunga (a person who forgives abuse the first time, tolerates it the second time, but never the third)

Rapa Nui: tingo (to gradually steal all of a neighbor's possessions by borrowing them and not returning them)

Russian: почемучка [pochemuchka] (a person who asks a lot of questions)

Swedish: gökotta (to wake up early in the morning with the purpose of going outside to hear the first birds sing)

Yagan: mamihlapinatapei (a wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who both want to initiate something, but neither wants to start)