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Meaning of kon tiki

kon tiki: It is the name of an inca God viracocha, originally called kon tiki. In addition a famous Norwegian Explorer use that name to give a name to your boat, with which he toured the Pacific and Polynesia to prove that the South Americans in the pre-Columbian period could reach the Polynesian Islands.; It doesn't mean anything. The name of the raft used by Norwegian Explorer is Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Pacific Ocean in 1947 to prove that prehistoric sailing was possible from South America with rudimentary techniques.; Kon Tiki was the name of the Sun God of the incas; kon tiki is incorrectly written and should be written as " Kon-Tiki " being its meaning: 60; /br 62; Name of the raft that in 1947 the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia to support his theory that American settlers arrived in the region in pre-Columbian times.

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