Re: VMs: Image Source, Accuracy of Transcriptions

[illumin8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Jacques Guy wrote:
> 
> Fell's interpretations are based on Metoro's chants, which I
> have demonstrated to be so much hogwash, in an article in
> the Journal de la Société des Océanistes.
...
> he was no Rapanui, just a Tahitian bullshit artist.
> 
> The only reliable modern scholar on the subject is Konstantin
> Pozdniakov. According to him, the "limbs" of rongorongo
> signs actually are phonetic symbols. Say, the uplifted arm

Thanks. Now I have some modern sources to track down. Is your paper
available & au Englais?


> >Fell mentions
> >Gaugin's painting "Merahi metua no Teha'amana = Ancestors of Teha'amana"
> >(1893)
> 
> Nonsense again. Some of the signs in that painting the wrong side
> up. Even the title (Merahi metua...) is mangled Tahitian.
> Tehamana, at any rate, was a Tongan.

Tahitian dyslexia aside, are you against the IDEA of a
proto-pan-Polynesian language or just that Metoro & Fell fail to
convince you of their claims?


illumin8

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