04/04/2026
Around Rapa Nui, green sea turtles travel thousands of kilometers across the Pacific but always return to the same shores, the place where they were born.
Scientists call it natal homing. They say these turtles are born with something like a compass written into their bodies — an ability to read the Earth’s magnetic field and to feel the unique signature of one coastline among thousands. They carry it with them through years of wandering, and it always brings them home.
People of Rapa Nui believe that turtles carry the memory of places within them. In Polynesian culture, the sea turtle (the honu) is sacred. A symbol of endurance, of finding your way back, of the invisible thread between the places that made you and the open water you must cross.
These cups carry the story of those small, ancient souls, creatures with such a deep sense of place and belonging inside them.
Hold them, and maybe you’ll feel it too: the pull of that invisible thread and the ocean that always brings you back.
Did you know? This place became known as Easter Island only in 1722, when a Dutch explorer arrived there on Easter Sunday and gave it that name. The island’s own name is Rapa Nui, and its people have an even older name for it — Te Pito o te Henua, which means “the navel of the world.”
