 This type of glyph is found in four examples in Keiti:
If I had to guess what is shown, I would
say that we see a shape representing the beginning: At
the bottom of the orbit (not shown in toto) there is
a nut, and that nut is below the surface of the
earth (wedge-shape above the nut), with a little
sprout in the middle striving up towards the light.
But that is pure guesswork, or?
Behind this guess of mine there are lots of threads. First of
all I would like to refer to a picture I have seen
reproduced in more than one book, showing a place
for
sacrifices, where in the background
there is a field studded with objects
resembling this glyph. The picture is from Cook's
first voyage.
In Van Tilburg's book I found a picture of a human
skull on top of which a sign
similar to this glyph is incised.
Cranium = nut in
Polynesian thought, which I have told already at
the start of this voyage. Life needs death.
I think that the general structure of this type of
glyph closely resembles the full-moon-glyph in
Mamari:
The principal god of Easter Island, Makemake, also seems to be involved. |
