2011/01/01 by Konstantin Pozdniakov · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Australian Indigenous Culture and History #Island Studies and Pacific Affairs #History #Art #Computer graphics (images) #Computer science
paper · pdf · doi:10.4000/jso.6371
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This paper is dedicated to structural analysis of rongorongo tablet Keiti. Following the numerous papers appearing on the subject in the past years, it is important to establish a standard for a rigorous structural analysis. It should include not only repetitive groups of signs, but also must consider the general layout of the text, anomalously high glyph occurrence, parallel passages shared with other texts and their order. It is fashionable to write about possible calendar-like structures in Easter Island texts, following the discoveries by Barthel and Guy of the probable schematic structure of lunar month on the tablet Mamari. While it was thought that the aforementioned list is unique in the whole rongorongo corpus, it is important to highlight various other text fragments that have the similar structural properties and feature about 30 repetitive elements, which may be considered as indicators of their relation to the moon cycle. One of these lists is widely known sequence delimited with glyphic group 380.1. At the same time, one should be aware that very pronounced repetitive character of single sign or sign group significantly limits the possibility of phonetic reading of rongorongo passages, which brings forth again still unanswered question about the proper content identification of the survived monuments of Easter Island script.