Talk:Pukao

Pukao or Pukau

I think Pukau is actually a typo, Fischer, Bahn and Tilberg all refer to Pukao. Google has 85,000 hits for Pukao and 39,000 for Pukau, but apart from the Wikipedia ones they seem to be about malaysian spirits. Anyone object if I change things over?Jonathan Cardy 20:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hung on Phalluses

If no one has a citation backing up the assertation that the hats may have made the statues more phallus-like, then it should be stricken out of the article. It sounds like feminazi mumbo-jumbo and is pretty far-fetched to consider a tall statue to be a phallus. If these people could make eyes out of coral and obsidian in pretty good detail, I would think they could do a much better job replicating a phallus than simply using a cylindrical hat. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.58.11.76 (talk) 22:53, 23 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

any sources for this idea

recent research shows that the statues may have been placed near outlets for fresh water, based on measurements of freshwater outlets at the ocean(hawaiians collect fresh water from the ocean where lava tubes release groundwater runoff). if that is the case, has anyone proposed that the pukau are water vessels? they look like a water vessel form, and many people carry water on their heads. its my idea, but if anyone out there thought of it before me, there may be a reference for it out there. (Mercurywoodrose)50.193.19.66 (talk) 17:58, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It seems unlikely. According to Aku-Aku (pp. 72–78, esp. 75), pukao means "topknot" and these stones were unimaginably hard to place because the pukao stone had to be of a different color (evidently to better represent hair, where a likely-to-be-gray representation of a water jug could have been easier to carve with the statue and make the "placement" easier). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhtwiki (talk • contribs) 22:52, 25 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]