1. The wealth of information presented so far is quite overwhelming. We need to orient ourselves - to look back in order to understand what has been achieved. In a nutshell, I have found that there once must have been a more or less common sign language used all over the world. This sign language is the 'Rosetta Stone' we need to read the rongorongo texts. If I have not 'proven' it before, I will do it now. Below is an interesting picture from Wilkinson:
Here we are looking towards south, because east is to the left and west to the right. Sun is rising through a hole in the morning and descends through another hole in the evening. In the center we can see a halfcircle indicating noon, the same signs as at the top end of the 'morning staff' in the central picture on the Gateway of the Sun:
Small details are often important. We can find the Mayan Chikin sign ('the biting of the Sun') in its correct position in the Egyptian picture - at the borderline in the west:
The head of the goddess in the west is forming a 'negative picture' of a grasping hand, with her throat open and wating to 'bite' evening Sun. Without knowledge of the Mayan Chikin sign we would probably not have noticed nor understood the meaning of this open throat. The thumb of Chikin corresponds to the space between the face and arm of the goddess, and her hair corresponds to the other fingers. Her eye (a Sun symbol) is down in the corner of her 'biting' hand. I did not discover this Chikin sign until just half an hour ago, though I earlier have looked at the picture several times over the years. Perception is a tricky business. |
