Aku-Aku Written by Tommy Shaw
Aku-Aku
Interpretation
[Excerpted from a posting to the Styx Internet Mailing List by Bob (Aku Aku) Young]
According to the tradition of the natives of Easter Island, Chief Tuu-ko-ihu was returning home when he saw two spirits of ancesters with protrudingribs and hollow bellies. The natives call the spirits of dead ancestersAku Aku. These two Aku Aku later appeared to the Chief in a dream and arerepresented in some of the wood (not the big stone Moai) carvings of thenatives.
Thus, Aku Aku are the spirits of dead ancesters. This is probably whyTommy chose to whisper "Aku Aku," as if it was whisperings of spirits.
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