The Rapa Nui old ceremonial writing, the Rongo Rongo, has no translators and interpreters capable of rescuing the deep and poetic meanings of the existing twenty four wooden tablets: the Kohahu Rongo Rongo.
The purpose of these texts was to record esoteric ceremonial formulas, songs for the celebrations, lists of ancestors, wars and several rituals.
The last interpreters of the old Rapa Nui writing were kidnapped and sold as slaves in Peru between the years 1862 and 1863: thus, the chance of learning about the meaning of the tablets was lost.
And important contribution was done by Meteoro (1893) y Totemenika (1914), two islanders who literally translated the texts, but the poetic and metaphoric meaning is no longer possible to understand.