![]() Thor is persuaded that the two legends bear trace of the same real event: the colonization of Polynesian islands by pre-Inca populations in the prehistoric era. Kon-Tiki himself and a handful of men were the only survivors: they made their way to the West coast and disappeared over the sea. He discovers some similarities between the Polynesian Tiki legend and the Inca myth of Kon-Tiki.Īccording to the latter, Kon-Tiki, the Sun god, used to rule on the Lake Titicaca - currently on the border of Bolivia and Peru - until the Inca ancestors conquered his land and massacred his legendary people. Thor is struck by the story: back to Norway, he decides to give up on zoology and study the history of the South Seas instead. ![]() Tiki, so legend has it, was the son of the Sun: he and his people had come to the Pacific islands from a faraway, eastern land overseas. ![]() ![]() While living in Fatu-Hiva - the southernmost island of the Marquesas Islands, in French Polynesia - Thor hears about the ancient myth of Tiki the God. ![]()
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