Search The Directory The Web for Home > Regional > South America > Chile > Regions > Valparaíso > Easter Island > Arts and Entertainment > Rongorongo New! Submit a site   whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   Astrological Zodiac in the Script of Easter Island - To quote some of this short page: "Honolulu Tablet No. B. 3622 looks as follows ... the above tablet is an astrological zodiac, with the recognizable signs in the correct order ... Reading from right to left..." [end of quote] In fact this tablet, from the very crude style of its signs, is likely a 19th-century fake. Even if it is not, the signs, being right side up, are to be read from left to right, not right to left. Then the author interprets those hieroglyphs as the standard Western zodiacal signs, starting with Leo, ending with the word "zodiac" in Sumerian, for which he gives a Latvian etymology. A particularly fine exhibit for the Kooks Museum.   Rongorongo by Sergei Rjabchikov - One of the many attempts at cracking the still undeciphered hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. This one from S. Rjabchikov of Krasnodar, Russia.   Rongorongo by Steven Fischer - One of the many attempts at cracking the still undeciphered hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. This one from S. Fischer of New Zealand. Some historical background.   The Easter Island Tablets by Jacques B.M. Guy - General overview, with introductions to parallel texts, the lunar calendar of Tablet Mamari, the Jaussen list, illustrations and photographs, and a biting critique of S.R. Fischer's decipherment.   The Indus script and the Easter Island or Rongorongo script - Apparently a chapter from a book entitled "The Tablets of the Easter Island Script", published in Bremen in 1999. The author, Egbert Richter-Ushanas, who also claims to have deciphered the Indus Valley writing. A short excerpt will give the general flavour: "the fusion V64.70.10f (no. 28) that is rendered by [Metoro] as kua tuu i te hau o te heu - he comes to the water/the dew of the lobster. The water or dew is a synonym for the vaginal fluid, the lobster stands for the mature girl, the sign for 'he' is a variant of the stick that can also represent the male member. Their union can be compared to the Mesopotamian sacred marriage (E. Richter-Ushanas 1987: 145)"   The Jaussen List - Bishop Jaussen's list of glyphs, with their readings as collected from his informant Metoro Tauara. Used by many as a key to decipherment.   The Rongorongo of Easter Island by Anon. - The whole corpus of the Easter Island hieroglyphic inscriptions, with interlinear transcriptions in Thomas Barthel's system, a catalogue of the hieroglyphs, summaries of various attempts at decipherment, reports of early visitors to the island (Eugene Eyraud, Alphonse Pinart, William Thomson, George Cooke, Catherine Routledge), numerous illustrations and photographs. Factual, with regular additions.   Yuri Knorozov: a genealogy on the Small Santiago Tablet? - Short description of the discovery in 1956 by Yuri Knorozov and Nikolai Butinov of a sequence of hieroglyphs compatible with a genealogy. Knorozov is famous for having kicked off the decipherment of the Mayan hieroglyphics. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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