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Anonymousecoview

(225 posts)
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 03:10 PM Apr 2013

Decipherment of the Easter Island Tablets

What is the significance of the decipherment of the Easter Island tablets?
These Rongorongo writing boards preserve an early Polynesian Indigenous spirituality, ritual and world-view. Only those initiated into the island's wisdom schools or harekura (wharekura) were enabled to learn the ancient script. The writing was made a tapu or sacred restriction that covered the wisdom school and protected it from those who were unprepared for the sacred writing. Today everyone in the world has been restricted from learning the ancient Rongorongo writing. This presents an opportunity to open a wisdom school for the entire world to enter, if the sacred tapu can be lifted. The following link contains a book that for the first time deciphers these Easter Island tablets. However, raise this tapu only if you are willing to follow in the footsteps of these Indigenous elders who wrote it... They will be looking for someone willing to weave their own human identity into their local environment....

http://www.scribd.com/doc/127655314/The-Decipherment-of-the-Easter-Island-Tablets

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Decipherment of the Easter Island Tablets (Original Post) Anonymousecoview Apr 2013 OP
Thanks for the link! Wait Wut Apr 2013 #1
Your Welcome Anonymousecoview Apr 2013 #2

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
1. Thanks for the link!
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 03:14 PM
Apr 2013

Since I was a little girl, I've been fascinated by all things related to Easter Island. I was only able to scan through the first few pages, but those few enticed me to read more.

Bookmarked for later!

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