At first glance it is not clear why this picture was placed under "Easter Island". Not even at second glance and the title does not provide any information about it. If you translate ihu-ku the thing becomes even more mysterious, because then you only experience: bow standing erect. For all landlubbers, this would be nothing more than a sunset, because when the bow of the boat is upright, the journey goes deep. What does a bird have to do with an upright bow of a canoe and why can the same motif be seen upside down in black behind the two figures in the picture? Now it is the painter's duty to explain what cannot otherwise be understood. "Bow standing erect" is the first and always central command from the navigator to his helmsman, because he says that the star he has interpreted has to be in the sky exactly at the bow of his canoe at night. This star should be in an imaginary straight line from the bow to the sky, and you should follow it until another star takes over this function. The helmsman has to align the boat in the commanded navigation exactly, regardless of whether the "navigation star" is just above the rear or at the zenith. I literally took this ancient command from the high navigation art of maritime traditions in the Pacific Ocean and worked the sign for the upright bow in wood veneer. This already explains what the bird means. The classic approach of secret notations is perfectly implemented in the alleged Easter Island script. This concept is: Nothing ever is itself. The bird so realistic in the picture is not a bird that flies in the air. It is a synonym for a star that symbolically stands for a star as a bird, more precisely even as a frigate bird. In the supposed Easter Island script this bird sign stands for different stars and I have to stop explaining more here. The "silhouette of the foreground motif is easily explained, because on one side of the equator there are constellations and other star formations upright, on the other side of the imaginary center line of the equator they are upside down is the interface between art and science. If you want to know more about it, you can find my texts at www.rongorongo-script.de

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Ihu-ku by Michael H. Dietrich. Available as an art print on canvas, photo paper, watercolor board, uncoated paper or Japanese paper.
easter island · myth · writing · star navigation · astronomy