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Rongorongo and the Indus Script
In the decades following the discovery of the Indus Valley Seals, researches noticed a correlation between the scripton the Easter Island tablets and the Indus Script.Here is a sample from the History of Writing illustrating the similarity between the Indus Script and the EasterIsland (Rapa Nui) tablet writing called Rongorongo.
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Column I, III, V and VII belong to the Indus Script.Current scholars have downplayed the significance of these similarities for two reasons. First, the Indus Script waswritten 2000 or more years before the Easter Island tablets and secondly, Easter Island is on the opposite side of theglobe from the Indus Valley separated in a large part by two oceans.However, distance and time are not insurmountable barriers for human beings. Look at the Egyptians whomaintained a writing system for thousands of years. The modern world tends to lord over the ancients the ability totravel the globe, while forgetting the significant sea trade routes maintained in the ancient Indian and PacificOceans.
 
Are the similarities between the Indus and Rapa Nui writing systems a topic for scholars to re-consider? Thefollowing preliminary comparison on these two scripts will further prove their common origin.Notice the following two Indus Seals with corresponding Rapa Nui Rongorongo glyphs. Not only do both writingsystems use three circles stacked, but they also provide a variation of the glyph with a line through the center.The second symbol is seen here on coins from the 3
rd
Century BC Ashoka dynasty of Northern India
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:The symbol represents Ashoka's
mudra
or royal mark, which represents the
Caduceus
or two snake and staff symbolof peace. Caduceus is a word originating from the Greek for
herald’s staff.
It was also called
 Aaron’s Rod 
and sobecame the universal sign for healing and medicine. Here on the Indus Seals and the Ashoka coin, it likelyrepresents the sign to protect merchants and commerce. In this regard there is a link between Greco-Romanmythology and early India, where Hermes, in his aspect namedNingishzida,is the
messenger of the Earth Mother.
Hermes received the Caduceus symbol , as a peace offering from Apollo in exchange for the tortoise shell lyre.The symbols reflect the ancient celestial constellation of Orion, shaped with the three stars in a ro
w called, Orion‟s
belt. Ashoka, then, a king devoted to peace, used the symbol for the double purpose of protecting commerce andnegotiating peace. He was a king devoted to peace and he may have adopted the symbol from missionary activity of his Buddhist priests who travelled to the Mediterranean. Yet, his kingdom did include the Indus Valley region,which must have continued the traditional use of this symbol used on the Indus seals. The correlation suggests a
remote „sharing‟ of cultures by way of mer 
chant and religious activity, much more plausible than the colonial Aryaninvasion propaganda.In the mythology, the offspring of Hermes, Asclepius (the healer), used the Caduceus to raise Hippolytus (un-leaserof horses) from the dead
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. This mythology intertwines with Hindu Mythology where the offspring of Sagara returnsthe stolen sacrificial horse from the Underworld and whose great-grandson,Bhagirathi,subsequently un-leased theGanges upon the hair of Shiva, causing the 60 000 sons of Sagara to raise from the dead
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. Interestingly, it is at theancient Egyptian temple of 
Sakkara
, where Orion is named
Sahu.
 
Sah/Sahu
, in the constellation Orion, is the soul inthe
Sektet 
, boat of the setting Sun, which has been purified from earthly imperfections and can travel freely back andforth from sky to earth
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. Sahu is associated with the Sirius Constellation of the Cow following him in its own boatand the gate of the Great House where the souls of the City of the Sun bear offerings of bread, cake, sweet smellingflowers, and together with Sahu, the Great Cow
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.In Polynesia, Rigel of Orion is called, Poaka (the ball root), giving the three balls with the line through it as a sign of the genealogy of the founding fathers. Rapa Nui calls this genealogical belt of Orion the Beautiful Ones, referring tothe founding father and two sons, perhaps a memory of Sagara and his offspring.
 
 The Indus Seal below contains as many as three glyphs remarkably similar to the Rapa Nui writing of Rongorongo:
 Notice the standing figure contains three upward strokes; the curved „river‟ like glyph is identical with two lines andcurve direction; and the „moon‟ glyph
contains a central swelling feature in both writing systems. Remarkably, thismoon feature appears to coincide in a near identical phrase of eight glyphs illustrated below:For these comparisons the Indus Script is in the lower grey and the Rapa Nui Script is givenin the upper clear background.The Indus river, possibly represented in the center of the seal above is derived from the original name,
Sindus,
toflow, the ocean; sign of Varuna; water into which the
soma
drops. It is the name used whil
e dropping the „s‟ for the
people of India.Two more glyphs associated with the Sindus Ocean or River are illustrated below with Indus Seals on the left andRapa Nui glyphs on the right:a net a boatThe use of travel by merchant vessel enabled these seals to accompany their shipments near and far. For instancethe following Indus seals were found in excavation of Ur, Mesopotamia (the first 4) and Southeast Asia (bottom)
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