https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8uhCeiXiEY
Pray to the Moyai

https://www.thecollector.com/moai-easter-island-heads/
The Moai, better known as the Easter Island heads, are world-renowned and commonly recognized statues. The Easter Island heads, referred to as Moai (meaning statue) in their native language, are monolithic sculptures. They depict human figures, said to be representations of the island inhabitants' ancestors. They were created between the 13th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moai
The Moyai Statue was a gift from the people of Nii-jima (an island 163 kilometres (101 mi) from Tokyo but administratively part of the city) inspired by Easter Island moai. The name of the statue was derived by combining moai and a word from the Nii-jima Japanese dialect moyai ( 催合い ) 'helping each other' .

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/pacific-apah/polynesia-apah/a/easter-island-moai
Easter Island is famous for its stone statues of human figures, known as moai (meaning "statue"). The island is known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui. The moai were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 C.E. until the second half of the seventeenth century. Over a few hundred years the inhabitants of this remote island quarried, carved and erected

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/what-do-the-moai-statues-represent-cyark/-AWBPCaK6uRobA?hl=en
The ahu (platforms), with their moai (statues) are the iconic monuments of Rapa Nui. Alan Haoa uses laser scanning to document the lone moai of Ahu Ature Huki (2019-01) by CyArk CyArk. Over a period of four to five hundred years, the Polynesian settlers created open air temple complexes - the ahu platforms and their associated plazas

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/everything-to-know-about-easter-islands-iconic-statues
The largest discovered moai, named "El Gigante," is one that never made it out of Rano Raraku—it is 69 feet tall and is thought to weigh about 200 metric tons. These statues were erected

https://www.reddit.com/r/CallMeCarson/comments/ciblps/look_at_the_moyai/
MOYAI. 1.7K votes, 28 comments. 146K subscribers in the CallMeCarson community. Main subreddit for the community of Youtuber & Streamer CallMeCarson.

https://www.bluezones.com/2018/08/moai-this-tradition-is-why-okinawan-people-live-longer-better/
Mo•ai (/mo,eye/) Japan. noun. Elders in Okinawa, Japan, one of the original blue zones longevity hotspots, live extraordinarily better and longer lives than almost anyone else in the world. Moai, one of their longevity traditions, are social support groups that start in childhood and extend into the 100s. The term originated hundreds of years

https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/chile/articles/easter-islands-moai-statues-8-things-you-always-wanted-to-know
The size of each Moai varies significantly, but on average they are 13 feet (4 meters) tall and weigh 13 tonnes. Some are much bigger, however, with the tallest measuring a whopping 33 feet (12 meters) and weighing in at 82 tonnes. The largest unfinished Moai would have been 69 feet (21 meters) and weighed as much as 270 tonnes.

https://worldhistorycommons.org/moai-easter-island
The Moai are large statues on Easter Island in Oceania, known for their distinctive head and facial features. The moai were created by the Rapa Nui people likely between 1250 and 1600 CE. The moai have distinctively large heads and disproportionately small bodies and are often called the "Easter Island Heads," despite most having bodies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/pyw36j/whats_going_on_with_the_moai_statues_why_are_they/
Answer: The other reply might explain what triggered some recent resurgence but the Moyai meme is quite old and its "modern" form (ie nonsensical moyai emojis in comments) can be traced back to 2018 instagram/snapchat memes.I can also attest to seeing moyai emojis in reddit threads a couple years ago and you even have r/moai which is fully dedicated to the meme.

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/moai-of-easter-island/
The moai contained and embodied the deceased's spirit (mana). The most important pieces were the eyes made of white shells and coral. Only one example survives. The eyes were placed at the very end of the installation and seen as the key piece to bring the figure to life. One of the only original eyes remaining.

https://smarthistory.org/moai-waka/
Voyage to the moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) by Dr. Wayne Ngata and Dr. Steven Zucker. Moai of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Waka Tapu, and the reclaiming of cultural heritage. These giant statues embody the ancients who first voyaged to Rapa Nui. Many were toppled; all lost their coral eyes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/moai/comments/1841o3n/why_moai_emoji_used_in_text_or_meme_what_does_it/
History lesson (emoji and text messages): the origin of the moai in emoji comes from the fact that emoji itself was invented in Japan for their "feature phones" that predate iPhone or Android. There is a Moai-like structure (called the moyai statue) near Shibuya train station in Tokyo. So, emoji was probably first used in text messages as a

https://www.thoughtco.com/making-the-moai-of-easter-island-170750
Phil Whitehouse / Flickr / CC BY 2.0. The main bodies of most of the moai statues at Easter Island were sculpted out of the volcanic tuff from the Rano Raraku quarry, the remains of an extinct volcano.The Rano Raraku tuff is a sedimentary rock made from layers of air-lain, partially fused and partially cemented volcanic ash, fairly easy to carve but very heavy to transport.

https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-moai-emoji-mean-on-tiktok
The moai emoji is available on most emoji keyboards, but if you find that you're having trouble locating it, you can always type in the keyboard command ":moyai:" to get it. Now that it's in common circulation, the moai emoji may make some wonder about the statues that the emoji is based on, which have a mystery all their own to explore.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moai-emoji
The Moai Emoji 🗿, also known as Moyai Emoji, is an emoji that looks similar to the head statues found on Easter Island, Chile. However, this particular representation of the statues is based on the Moai Statue in Tokyo, Japan, which was inspired by the Easter Island statues. [3] The emoji is commonly associated with the Vine Thud Sound Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moyai_statue
A moyai statue in Niijima.. In Japan, a moyai statue (Japanese: モヤイ像, Hepburn: moyaizō) is a type of stone statue originally created in the Japanese village of Niijima, located in the Izu Islands.The statues, which were created to promote awareness of Niijima, are themed and modeled after the moai of Easter Island.The statues may be found across Japan, where they often serve as local

https://www.britannica.com/art/moai-figure
moai kavakava. moai paepae. moai figure, small wooden statue of uncertain religious significance, carved on Easter Island. The figures, thought to be representations of ancestors who live on in the form of skeletons, are of two types, moai kavakava (male) and moai paepae (female). They were sometimes used for fertility rites but were more often

https://medium.com/@Gostart.Com/the-moai-emoji-its-rise-to-fame-and-what-it-really-means-41cf4f2db2c2
Discover the origins and symbolic meaning of the Moai emoji, inspired by the iconic Easter Island statues and its alternative representation of the Moyai statue in Tokyo. Moai Emoji's Rise on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJkq-U7_8ZA
Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli sing The Prayer. (There are two versions of the lyrics below ... first the actual; second the full English version/translation

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/cw8sdd/built_moyai_for_my_friends_birthday_he_loved_it/
You're a fucking stone, you have no life goals, you will never accomplish anything in life apart from pissing me off. When you die noone will mourn. I hope you die. Wow, i really feel like a massive fucking stone today. Yo, Angelo. 4.4K votes, 223 comments. 7.4M subscribers in the Minecraft community.

https://emoji.gg/emoji/3796-moyai-pray
The Moyai_pray emoji should now be available for use in your Guilded server! Moyai_pray emoji for Discord & Slack. Moyai_pray is a custom emoji created by Cheese for use on Discord, Slack and Guilded. Users can download the Moyai_pray emoji and upload it to their communities easily by using our Discord emoji bot or by manually downloading the