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Rongorongo

from <Qocheedy Daiin> by The Far Stairs

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Rongorongo is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th Century on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) that appears to be writing or proto-writing. It cannot be read despite numerous attempts at decipherment. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, not even these glyphs can actually be read. If Rongorongo does prove to be writing, it could be one of as few as three or four independent inventions of writing in human history.

Two dozen wooden objects bearing Rongorongo inscriptions—some heavily weathered, burned, or otherwise damaged—were collected in the late 19th Century and are now scattered in museums and private collections. None remain on Easter Island. The objects are mostly tablets shaped from irregular pieces of wood—sometimes driftwood—but include a chieftain's staff, a bird-man statuette, and two reimiro ornaments.

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from <Qocheedy Daiin>, released February 9, 1944

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