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18th August 2011, 07:29 PM
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A COUPLE OF EASTER ISLAND TABLETS WITH WRITINGS AND DESIGNS FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.
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18th August 2011, 08:15 PM
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Modern genetics suggests the origins of Easter Islanders are Polynesian. I cannot read the script but the glyphs look Mayan to me.
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18th August 2011, 08:45 PM
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Actually nobody can read this script: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo
 Possibly I am wrong, yet this last tablet (#2) looks like a tourist item to me. Last edited by Gustav; 18th August 2011 at 09:11 PM. |
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18th August 2011, 08:57 PM
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I meant the glyphs on the bluey white pendant stone above this one.
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18th August 2011, 09:07 PM
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Sorry for the misunderstanding, Tim. They are Mayan.
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19th August 2011, 12:29 AM
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Gustav is right those are Mayan glyphs.
However the Rongorongo board is depicting 2 figures involved in the Birdman cult of late Easter Island before contact and before the civilization fell apart. |
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19th August 2011, 09:03 AM
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There are just 26 authentic rongorongo inscriptions on different wooden objects and it isn't sure even if they all are genuine.
But there is also a real rongorongo-industrie which started at latest in the sixties. |
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