![]() The year after, Thor publishes a book about the Kon-Tiki adventure: it turns into a bestseller. The scientific community is sceptical and Thor decides to prove his theory in the most spectacular way: he finds a crew, builds up a raft using pre-Inca native material and technologies and sails from the port of Lima to reach the Polynesian islands. 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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