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Kona, Tiki God

Thor Heyerdahl (born October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway—died April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy) Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer who organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki (1947) and Ra (1969-70) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant.


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Kon (Pre-Incan mythology) In Pre-Incan mythology, Kón ( Con) was the god of rain and wind that came from the North. He is thought to be a deity to the Paracas Civilization, who was later adopted into Nazca and Incan mythology through different names. He was a son of Inti (the sun god) and Mama Killa ("mother moon"). [1]


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Kon-Tiki was. According to Inca legends, there was a sun god named Con-Tiki Viracocha who was the supreme leader of the mythical fair-skinned people of Peru. Kon-Tiki was.


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In those days, a terrible flood submerged the whole Earth and destroyed almost all of mankind. Viracocha appeared shortly after, like a savior. "He spoke to men with love and gentleness, calling them his sons, pledging to love each other and to be charitable. His name was Kon Tiki Viracocha. But he was also called Huaracocha, Thunupa, Taapac.


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The raft was named after the Peruvian Sun god, the Kon-Tiki. The journey of the Kon-Tiki lasted 101 days. The vessel and crew came through many ordeals: from encounters with whales to endless calms and raging storms. On the 7th of August 1947, the Kon-Tiki ended its 7000km sail on the atoll of Raroia in French Polynesia.


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The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl.The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.Heyerdal's book on the expedition was entitled The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas.


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In 1947, as recounted in the international best-seller The Kon-Tiki Expedition, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five companions voyaged from Peru to Polynesia aboard a handbuilt balsa-wood.


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MEET THE ORIGINS. Our expeditions take their name from Kon-Tiki Viracocha, the God of all Creation in pre-Inca and Inca mythology. Viracocha means "sea foam", and he is represented by an old man with the sun as his crown, two lightning bolts in his hands, and tears in his eyes that symbolize rain. Kon-Tiki Viracocha brought light into the world.


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Kon-Tiki, raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east of Tahiti.Heyerdahl was interested in demonstrating the possibility that ancient people from the Americas could have colonized Polynesia; to do so, he constructed Kon-Tiki (named for a legendary Inca god) from locally available balsa logs.


TARİH VE ARKEOLOJİ KÜNTİKİ ya da “bilinen” adıyla Kon/ConTiki

"Kon-Tiki" was the name given to the raft itself, after the Inca sun god, Viracocha; Kon-Tiki was believed to be an ancient name for the god. First Settlers. Heyerdahl's book, published in Norwegian in 1948 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, was later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft.


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The "Kon-Tiki" was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, and "Kon-Tiki" is an old name for this god. Heyerdahl filmed the expedition, which later became the Academy Award winning documentary in 1951, and he wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world.


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Viracocha (also Wiraqocha, Huiracocha; Quechua Wiraqucha) is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America. According to the myth Viracocha had human appearance and was generally considered as bearded. According to the myth he ordered the construction of Tiwanaku. It is also said that he was accompanied by men also referred to as Viracochas.


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The raft was dubbed Kon-Tiki after the Incan sun god, Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name, and the expedition started to sail east. "The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is," Heyerdahl wrote of the journey in his 1950 book Kon-Tiki. "It is a conveyor and not an isolator."


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Kon-Tiki describes his adventures at sea and his arrival in Polynesia. Events in History at the Time of the Narrative. Furthermore, the original name of the sun god was Kon-Tiki, the name of the legendary white-skinned forefather of the Polynesians. According to Inca legend, some mysterious white men with beards were attacked by a chief.


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Kon Tiki Virakocha was the Sun King and supreme leader of the mythical" white " race who left enormous ruins on the shores of Lake Titicaca. In a battle. " The latest spectacular attempt to prove that Kon-Tiki Virococha, the Creator-God, peopled Polynesia, by the expedition on the balsa raft Kon Tiki, also has no


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For the rest, it is not an exaggeration to assume that in all probability the ancient Peruvians, as the Polynesian legends tell, invigorated themselves during the journey by chewing coca leaves. 'Kon-Tiki' Documentary (1951), awarded with an Oscar for 'Best Documentary Feature'. Dragged by a tugboat to the mouth of the port of Callao, the raft.