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- The Rongorongo of Easter Island - Extensive corpus of Rongorongo hieroglyphic text, translation tools, Rapanui grammar and dictionary.
- Rongorongo Home Page - Papers by Sergei V. Rjabchikov regarding his research into this mysterious ancient language of Easter Island.
- Easter Island's Rongorongo Script - Steven Fischer attempts to decipher the hieroglyphic writing of Easter Island. Includes a response to Jacques Guy's criticism.
- Rongo Rongo Tablets - Pictures and samples of text including a partially translated lunar calendar.
- Rongorongo: The Easter Island Tablets - Jacques B.M. Guy describes this unique writing system and the attempts at its decipherment. Includes a critique of Stephen Fischer's proposed decipherment.
- Two Systems of Symbolic Writing - A comparison by Egbert Richter-Ushanas of the Indus Script and the Rongorongo Script of Easter Island.
- A Genealogy on the Small Santiago Tablet? - Jacques Guy gives an image and resume of the argument by Yuri Knorozov and Nikolai Butinov in 1956 that a certain sequence of signs was compatible with a genealogy.
- The Jaussen List - Bishop Jaussen's list of glyphs, with their readings as collected from his informant Metoro Tauara. Used by many as a key to decipherment.
- Rongorongo de Rapa Nui - Lorena Bettocchi propose des extraits de son livre sur cette écriture et sur les tablettes de l'Île de Pâques, sur le peuple et la langue de Rapa-Nui, photos.
- Two Systems of Symbolic Writing - Features a comparison of the Indus script and the Rongorongo script of Easter Island.
Wikipedia Articles
- Rongorongo - Rongorongo or ko hau rongo rongo (Rapa Nui kohau rongorongo "wooden messenger, talking wood") is one of three undeciphered scripts of the Rapanui people of Easter Island, the others being the ta'u and mama scripts. All were carved onto wooden tablets.
- Rongorongo (wife of Turi) - In MÄori tradition, Rongorongo is the wife of Turi (mythology), the chief of the Aotea canoe. She is an ancestress of the Whanganui and Ngati Ruanui iwi.
- Egbert Richter-Ushanas - ... lecturer, author of self-published (Egbert Richter Verlag, registered in Bremen) treatises on Yoga, Vedanta, Esotericism and mythology, translations of some Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as well as original poetry. Richter has also published various pseudo-scholarly claims, including decipherment of the Rongorongo, Phaistos Disc and Indus scripts.
- Toto (mythology) - In MÄori mythology, Toto was a chief in Hawaiki. He had two daughters, Kuramarotini, the wife of Hoturapa, and Rongorongo, the wife of Turi.