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Rongorongo is the indigenous Polynesian hieroglyphic script of Easter Island (home of the giant Maoi statues). Although the script is
acknowledged to be undeciphered, several of the hieroglyphic specimens display sequences of characters, which seem to be pictorial
representations of folk stories or traditional Polynesian calendarial practice. Please click on the glyph boards below, to link to articles by Michael Berthin* or Gordon Berthin. Review correspondences between glyph patterns and Easter Island folkloric or calendar traditions. Learn about some of the methods that epigraphers have used in their attempts to decipher rongorongo. We hope that you will find our materials to be engaging and educational. |
| * London School of Economics, Department of Anthropology. |
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Main Article: Rongorongo Routes to Decipherment |
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Astronomical Utility and Poetic Metaphor in the Rongorongo Lunar Calendar |
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The Affirmations of Vakai: Semiotic Rongorongo of the Latter Days of Hotu Matua |
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The Ka ihi uiga Rongorongo |
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