[post_page_title]A cure for leprosy?[/post_page_title]
One wild theory cooked up by historians is that the statues were believed to have been built in the hopes it would cure a leprosy problem on the island. Many of the statues have deformed faces or limbs, and it is thought these irregularly shaped body parts were designed to shock islanders into banishing sufferers to other islands. The shock value in disfiguring the parts of the body we place most value in, thing like the eyes, nose, and lips were thought to help undo the effects of leprosy.
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