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Easter Island - Indus Valley Scripts:

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« on: August 31, 2015, 12:58:39 am »

The original findings in 1932 by Wilhelm de Hevesy suggested that as many as forty Rongorongo symbols had a correlating symbol in the script from India. This number has now risen through independent research, including the recognition of similar variations of symbols in both scripts (View Here). The only visual difference between the two scripts is that one is written in 'stick' form, whereas the other is 'rounded' in form, which is not such an unlikely development on an isolated island over a thousand year period. It can be seen from the debate above that the Indus Valley Culture were navigating the Australasian oceans at the same time that the Pacific islands were first colonised, and that scripts, especially those considered 'sacred' have an enduring nature.

A significant recognition in relation to this subject is the observation that within the remaining 26 examples of Rongorongo, similar stretches of text have been found to be repeated on several of the samples is suggestive of a ritual record keeping, in the same way that the oral tradition recorded origin myths, ancestral genealogies, or other important knowledge such as astronomical cycles (Both of the last two are suspected within the surviving Rongorongo samples). This repetition of script leans in favour of the idea that the large number of Rongorongo boards reported 'In every Hut' were likely reproductions (or variations of earlier versions), no longer literally understood, but used symbolically (or mnemonically), perhaps in the same way that Holy books are kept in their home today.
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