The design is an upside-down vulva. From whence you came you must return. Odysseus at the end returned home to Ithaka (like a bird returning to his nest). For a proof that an upside-down orientation in rongorongo means not only the opposite of the normal orientation but also has the opposite meaning, we can look at this text in London Tablet (K):
At right in Kb4-19 we for once (the only exception I have seen) have henua ora in her natural orientation. The parallel text in G we recognize as describing the final (32nd phase) of the year, with 'full stop' at Ga7-14. This signifies that life will start anew beyond Ga7-14 (respectively Kb4-18). Death is a phase which belongs to the past. |
