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The Other Mystery of Easter Island[Language of Rongorongo]
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| 26 Dec 2006
| Stephanie Benson
Posted on 12/27/2006 10:27:03 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
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To: SunkenCiv
Not sure if it's your field.
Easter Island Language ping
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:27:53 PM PST
by
FLOutdoorsman
("If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.")
To: FLOutdoorsman
"The colonizers of Easter Island had decided that the strange language was too closely tied to the inhabitants' pagan past, and forbade it as a form of communication."
As with the destruction of Mayan/Aztec texts, the arrogance of received religion claimed another victim.
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:30:21 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: FLOutdoorsman
Fischer noticed that every third symbol on this staff has an additional "phallus-like" symbol attached to it. This led Fischer to believe that all Rongorongo texts have a structure steeped in counts of three, or triads. He has also studied Ure Vae Iko's fertility chant, which lent additional support to the concept. Iko had always named a god first, his goddess mate second, and their offspring third.
Hmmm...
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:37:25 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: gcruse
yup. thought the same thing. religious zealots suck.
To: FLOutdoorsman
Rongorongo ?
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:46:36 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
To: FLOutdoorsman
Jared Diamond wrote a piece on what actually happened on Easter Island and what the stone figures meant.
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posted on
12/28/2006 12:30:25 AM PST
by
Bon mots
To: FLOutdoorsman
To: Bon mots
So um, what did they mean? I always thought they were a navigation system for space aliens or something, LOL.
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posted on
12/28/2006 12:43:56 AM PST
by
bluefish
(Are you really that thick, or are you simply trolling for fun?)
To: bluefish
They were brutal primitives who raised the monuments for ceremonial purposes until a shortage of resources on the island led to an orgy of self-destruction. The loss of their language really is no loss at all.
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posted on
12/28/2006 3:22:34 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: BenLurkin
Without a doubt, Bush's fault.
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:06:22 AM PST
by
mkjessup
(The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
To: FLOutdoorsman
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posted on
12/28/2006 4:09:39 AM PST
by
Wormwood
(I'm with you in Rockland)
To: FLOutdoorsman
It will take a cunning linguist to decipher that language.......Rong or write..........
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posted on
12/28/2006 5:58:07 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Luke Skyfreeper
Holmes held up the paper so that the sunlight shone full upon it. It was a page torn from a notebook. The markings were done in pencil, and ran in this way:
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posted on
12/28/2006 6:20:36 AM PST
by
cloud8
To: BenLurkin
They seem to have used up the wood. What is the basis for your calling them brutal, though? Other than the fact that anyone who doesn't worship Jesus must be subhuman, that is.
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posted on
12/28/2006 9:51:50 AM PST
by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: gcruse
"The Dutch Admiral Roggeveen, onboard the Arena, was the first European to visit the island on Easter Sunday 1722. He found a society in a primitive state with about 3,000 people living in squalid reed huts or caves, engaged in almost perpetual warfare and resorting to cannibalism in a desperate attempt to supplement the meagre food supplies available on the island."
http://www.primitivism.com/easter-island.htm
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posted on
12/28/2006 12:38:48 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: FLOutdoorsman; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks FLOutdoorsman, a good GGG topic. Another of a number of claimed translations of the rongorongo was by Barry Fell, circa 1980.
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posted on
12/28/2006 7:37:05 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/28/2006 8:01:56 PM PST
by
Pelham
(1 Billion 'Guest Workers' to do Jobs Americans Won't Do.)
To: Luke Skyfreeper
The obvious translation is, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn".
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posted on
12/28/2006 8:03:31 PM PST
by
LexBaird
(98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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