2. After having considered several alternative approaches to creating a 'map' over the premissionary world of Easter Island I have come to realize not only my own incapacity of describing this forgotten old world but also how wrong it would be of me even to try it. So much do I know that it in principle cannot be 'put down on paper'. It was not a determinstic world with entities possible to define one at a time once and for all. It was a dynamic world with no single simple 'truth', instead things must be viewed from different perspectives.

On the other hand I do think it is in principle possible to create a dictionary of rongorongo signs. They have been determined in the texts, defined according to purpose. There are rules. I imagine I could do it by begining with a few axiomatic text sequences and from there build on (without ever coming to a definite end). But it would be awfully tiresome not only for me but also for any presumtive reader. This cannot be the right approach.

I can see only one reasonable path into the maze of rongorongo and that is to use the myths. The myths can be better understood from the rongorongo texts and vice versa. They go hand in hand. Myths do not define entities nor anything else, but they give hints and they arrange things into meaningful relationships with each other. That is what we need.

Myths were used for entertainment and in order to make people remember, and then to think. Real understanding comes only from the inside.