2. Then it should be remembered that the glyphs of rongorongo were taught with the aid of cat's cradle strings. Children's rhymes and games are clues left from the ancient cosmos and the myths tell us how to 'read' them.

Small children should play with cat's cradles if they were to grow up into sun worshippers; because the animal of the sun is the 'cat' (among other incarnations, e.g. the spider - also a 'cradle' maker).

Education should start already in the 'cradle' with their mothers' aid.

"The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to cat's cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions." (Fischer)

In the GD15 type of glyph the strange pointed head and 'ears' possibly were designed after a cat's cradle image.

(Van Tilburg)