Abora (deity) defying modern estimations of limited exploration by prehistoric man. The idea was inspired by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed from South America to Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki balsa raft in 1947. A similar boat, the Abora III, was launched in 2007 for a transatlantic crossing. Due to damage from several storms, the expedition was abandoned away from the Azores. Abora (deity) Abora is the name of an ancestal solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches, and of two reed boats. Abora (Ibru) is the name of the supreme being of the religion
Thor Heyerdahl Madani Ait Ouhanni from Morocco. The boat became lost and was the subject of a United Nations search and rescue mission. The search included international assistance including people as far afield as Loo-Chi Hu of New Zealand. The boat reached Barbados, thus demonstrating that mariners could have dealt with trans-Atlantic voyages by sailing with the Canary Current. The "Ra II" is now in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway. The book "The Ra Expeditions" and the film documentary "Ra" (1972) were made about the voyages. Apart from the primary aspects of the expedition, Heyerdahl deliberately selected a crew representing a