Rongorongo pictographic signs. The captions in the right-most column are merely descriptive. Self-made. Readings from Barthel, Thomas S. () Grundlagen zur Entzifferung der Osterinselschrift (Bases for the Decipherment of the Easter Island Script), Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter.
Let’s add more fragments of scripts and some wider context:
Genie with a poppy flower. Relief from the Palace of king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), 716–713 BC. Dimensions: H. 1.4 m (4 ft. 8 ½ in.), D. 17 cm (6 ½ in.). Louvre Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities, Richelieu wing, ground floor, room 4. Accession number: AO 19869. Credit line: Excavations of Paul-Émile Botta, 1843–1844. Public Domain by Marie-Lan Nguyen via Wikimedia Commons.
Pictographic signs representing temple households. From Woods, Cristopher Visible Language. Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond, 2010, p. 50.
Comets - 彗星 Comets (彗星 Huìxīng) have been observed and recorded in China since the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC). The set of comet illustrations shown above is from a silk book (帛书 Bóshū) written during the western Han period.
Cited by Hossein Turner at hozturner.blogspot.com
Comet illustrations (vertically inverted) from a silk book (帛书 Bóshū) written during the western Han period.
Gold Anthropomorphic Pectoral - FJ.6239, Origin: Colombia, Circa: 400 AD to 1600 AD, Dimensions: 7.25" (18.4cm) high × 3.25" (8.3cm) wide, Collection: Pre-Columbian, Style: Tolima, Medium: Gold. Via Antiques.com.
Seita, holy place of offering. From Shaman's drum symbols in Scandinavia.
Tiermes or Horagalles, god of the thunder and his symbol doublehammer.
On this lower half of a sami drum from Åsele tre frequent motives are hightlighted: Two Njalla are marked with No 1; The reindeer herd gathered within its fence is marked with No 2, this is a frequent motive on the southern sami drums; The three mother goddesses are marked as No 3-5. They are named Sáráhkká, Juoksáhkká og Uksáhkká, and appear mostly together. CC-BY-SA by Orland via Wikimedia Commons.
Siberian shaman drum. Image by Tor Gjerde.
Fig. 27. (Left) Conceptual geometry and experimental laser shadowgraph of an intense current-conducting toroidal stack.
Fig. 28. (Left) Laser back-illuminated plasma pinch. The photograph has been digitally stratified to bring out the curling of the edges of the bottom, flattened toroids. The cathode is at the top. (Right) Sample collection of petroglyphs showing the transition from the ladder phase of the instability to toroid vortices. (Left to right, top to bottom). The examples shown have been collected from several parts of the world.
Fig. 29. (Left) Vortex formation in sub and multimegaampere pinched plasma columns. (Right) Petroglyphs.
Fig. 30. Commonality of the most often depicted petroglyph, the squatter human or anthromorph.
Fig. 16. Pinch instability characteristics of a plasma column. (Left) Plasma light photographs, early time. (Middle) Graphical solution of the Chandasekhar–Fermi equations. (Right) Petroglyphs. The patterns are found world-wide.
Fig. 10. Radiography derived time sequence of a multimegaampere stack of toroids in the highly nonlinear instability phase. The sequence shown starts from a previous nonlinear phase where the pinch ripples on the outer surface have collapsed into squared, folded and warped toroids. Figures derived from a few selected laser shadographs and schlieren photos. Time proceeds from left to right and top to bottom.
