Works of art are often incomprehensible without an explanation from the artist. Again, this picture does not seem to indicate why you found it under the "Easter Island" heading. The title is also not helpful, because balancing means sport, dance, stage etc. The explanation begins with what can be called "Polynesian philosophy". We know most about this about the research of the great Elsdon Best, which the English doctor did to all strains of the Maori of New Zealand in the past century. Cause and effect - which we call the principle of causality - was the cornerstone of their culture. There is a cause for everything and always, the effect of which people can recognize or even suffer from. Children don't just ask and want answers, they want reasoned answers that they can understand. So why was it raining in New Zealand? - The little ones wanted to have that explained. The reason was that the great ancestor of most of the people in Polynesia, Tane, peed down from the sky. This is how the rain came about. Elsdon Best was speechless when he heard (and immediately wrote down) a nursery rhyme with one of the Maori tribes, with which the pissing tane was laughed at by the children. These were happy children, because grandma and grandpa could explain everything and never a question remained. The principle of cause and effect was more than knowledge, it was magic! But not only everything that happened here on Earth had to be explained, of course everything that went on as a nightly spectacle in the sky. There was and is a star that behaves abnormally. All stars are bright, but not equally bright. And with a free eye you can see a star up there that regularly gets lighter and darker. People observed this 3,200 years ago and wrote it down with Egyptian hieroglyphs. Finnish astronomers only found out recently. The Arabs called this star "Devil's Star", we know it by its name "ALGOL". He is the prototype of the "cover variable" (you are here in an art portal, if you want to know more from an astronomical point of view, you can google!) Algol is the second brightest star in the constellation Perseus. Lighter and darker - but why? Cause and effect are not limited to earthly occurrences. Since there are no stars anyway, as we describe and understand them, Algol was also a divine ancestor who showed the spectacle in the sky night after night. This was caused by the fact that Ahn Algol, who was visible as a star, did the balancing act at regular intervals, then it became long and narrow and we can still see it today, then in its brighter appearance. However, if he got up, he became darker again, which everyone can see. Algol, the divine ancestor, still does this. From our scientific point of view, we understand it a little differently. The supposed Easter Island script notes astronomical processes that were once used as star navigation in the Pacific for goal-oriented navigation. Algol was represented in this star ensemble. So it was important to design a sign for him. Light and dark - as light - are the classics in figurative painting - but not only there. With colors or just with black and white, that's no problem. But how can you score on hard wood with a sailor's knife in only a maximum of 20 millimeters and express that the star Algol behaves as described? The Maori called him MATOHI, which translates to "split" and that means balancing act. This gives a visual idea of how you can easily "portray" this nocturnal "athlete" in the form of a sign. The unknown masters in the Pacific who invented the Rongorongo system knew the simple trick of how to "deal" with polarities in the graphics. If light / dark cannot be displayed, you are looking for polarities that can represent this task. Standing upright or figuratively represented in the balancing act can be understood as polarity. I indicated the two phases of the star in my picture with black and white as "background radiation". The five balls are of course Algol - as a lighter and a darker star. This explains this picture, if not quite as extensively as I could explain it. Nothing is a coincidence, every brush stroke is the result of a well-considered intention. This picture with a sign from Rongorongo also proves that no sign in the system is what it represents. It is not just a stylized person who can be seen doing the balancing act, it is the cause of the effect of a cover-changing star - from the point of view of the knowledgeable Maori sages on all islands in the Pacific - in times long past, in the past. This picture too lies on the seam threshold between art and science. Who wants to know more about Rongorongo can be found here: www.rongorongo-script.de

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Splits - A Heavenly Pleasure by Michael H. Dietrich. Available as an art print on canvas, photo paper, watercolor board, uncoated paper or Japanese paper.
easter island · script · astronomy · seafaring · star navigation · maori · polynesian mythology · sign system · graphics