There are 2 quotes that seem apt for the pylons...
- the glyphs originate with hand signals used for hunting.
- the glyphs are pictoral.
I strongly suspect that this is simply 3 "sets of directions", but I have no idea what we're supposed to do with them.
Maybe the direction the tiles are facing is important?
If you look at the side of the Beacon that has the two cells with triangle glyths. They are both the same except a horizontal reverse of one another. So they would cancel each other out if they where directions?
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Yes, i agree that the Data packet regarding Sign language is pertinent but i feel it important not to confuse The Guardians geometric fascination with their use of sign language.
I feel the Geometric shapes we see have numerical use while the sign (Glyth's) are more related to language.
The Monolith network looks to me like numerical information while the overall site itself could have encoded cultural and language overtones through the use of sign glyths that the data packets suggested have Abstract relationships. (Example the Glyth (word) for moon in Guardian is of a waxing and waning satellite).
I think the larger circle for example represents a star with system configuration data somehow encoded in its morphology.
So decode the number system and maybe that will help make sense of the sites more abstract forms.
Off the cuff...
IF we look at the ruin site before the recent patch, there is alot of noise (detail) around the stone elements of the site, I wonder if Fdev toned this down in the new patch to help people focus on the raw details. The metal (Machine) elements of the site are untouched (aside from some reconfiguration) and we have a Mission and CG that are trying to focusing us on those aspects of the site, so i feel we need to start there.
(I had wondered if the reconfiguration of the site is on purpose.... not because Fdev changed their minds but instead because the site moved... and in that movement is something we need to notice.)
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However.... im willing to bet this.....
Game assets related to this mystery are not available in game until Fdev throw a switch, and everything will become apparent once CG's and Galnet articles 'Carrot on a stick' the community.