Two systems of symbolic writing : the Indus script and the Easter Island script / Egbert Richter-Ushanas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richter-Ushanas, Egbert, author.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Indus script.

Rongorongo script.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Nordhausen, Germany] : [Traugott Bautz], 2012.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

The author and the book The deciphering of the Indus-script with recourse to the R̥g-Veda shows that the Indus-culture is older than the Vedic canon that was transmitted orally. The Yoga has the same origin as it can be deduced from Indus seals and tablets with a person sitting in a yoga-posture. This is also evident through the Yoga practice of the greeting of the sun, where the hands form the Indus-sign for the sun. Since the Indus cities were destroyed in a relatively early time the Indus-script was conserved as a word script. It did not develop into a letter-script as the Egyptian writing.

Contents:

Cover; Titelei; Impressum; CONTENTS; Introduction; I. The interpretation of the Indus scriptin relation to the R̥g- and Atharva-Veda; 1. The historical setting of the Indus script; 2. The testimony of bilinguals; 3. Short inscriptions (one to four signs); 4. The Sacred marriage; 5. The great seer Agastya; 6. The standard as an image of the soma-press; 7. Two seals with cosmogonic inscriptions; 8. The parable of the elephant and the blind; 9. The swastika; 10. Cross-Checking; 11. Conclusions; References; II. The Rosetta stone of the Rongorongo script; Preliminary remarks

1. The beginning of Rongorongo research 2. The settlement of Easter Island and the war between the long-ears and the short-ears; 3. The breast ornament Rei Miro 2; 4. The New York birdman; 5. Line Br1 and Br2 of tablet Aruku Kur; Selected Bibliography; The author and the book

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 10, 2015).

OCLC:

908075294