It is no longer obvious for me what the cross in this type of glyph means. Earlier I thought that it simply represented the four quarters of the earth, which the king ruled over. Later I saw the cross as the view from the top of a pyramid (= earth), and now I am no longer even sure about what I mean by the concept earth. Is 'earth' really - as I have ignorantly supposed until now - the local henua of the four, or is 'earth' all four of them at once? We have one henua south of the equator and another north of the equator - that is divison by latitude. And then not even the sun can see more than one side of the earth at once, therefore we have this henua now (where there is light from the sun) and 12 hours later, when we are in the dark, there will be light on the back side of the globe, another henua - division by longitude. On top of that we should not primarily think about the spacial divisions (by latitude and longitude) but the divisions in time. Dark here, light there, winter here, summer there. Global thinking is rethinking. The hard covers of Heyerdahl 4 are blue like the sky (or the deep sea) and in the middle of this blue there is a strange emblem in gold which fascinates me. It looks as if it has been created by the same minds who created the rongorongo glyphs, but it is not - as far as I know - identical with any glyph in the rongorongo texts. And there is nothing is said about the emblem on the cover of the books (2 vol.) where one usually find such information, on one of the first pages. I am in the dark. Could it be an artist of today who is behind this picture or is it an ancient image? I don't know, but on next page I will show it to you.
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