4 Flower Island of Crete Heliacal rising of Sirius 8-petal flower at center of wave spiral on ceiling (see link above) 8-petal Flower of Life guarded by goddess Mut, Egyptian limestone relief 3 Side A Positions - 1, 13, 76 Segments - A1, 4, 19 1 Side B Position - 72 Segment - B19 As Above, So Below Watch the geometry flip The hood of the initiate looks up, then down	2 Man with Shaved Head Daedalus, Icarus Astronomer-Priest 2 Side A Positions - 2, 14 Segments - A1, 4 0 Side B Points connected by a line	4 Oar of the Argo 3 Stars in Argo that make the Oar, Aspidiske and Markeb 4 Side A Positions - 3, 15, 46, 71 Segments - A1, 4, 11, 18 0 Side B Wings of Icarus
11 Evans gave his runner a little something extra. Constellation Herakles/Hercules Runner Mural, Knossos 6 Side A Positions - 4, 19, 41, 66, 84, 118 Segments - A2, 6, 10, 17, 20, 30 5 Side B Position - 51, 60, 71, 88, 94 Segment - B14, 16, 19, 23, 24 Constellation Taurus	6 Evans really modified this pictograph. Spindle 3 Side A Positions - 5, 20, 119 Segments - A2, 6, 30 3 Side B Position - 44, 89, 95 Segment - B12, 23, 24 Acute Triangle Isosceles Triangle	2 Evans may have pointed this pictograph in the direction that made sense to him. As Above, So Below House of the God Ja-Wa 2 Side A Positions - 6, 56 Segments - A3, 15 0 Side B Points connected by a line
4 Evans must have thought this pictograph was a papyrus. Thistle or Thyrsi 2 Side A Positions - 7, 57 Segments - A3, 15 Diameter 2 Side B Position - 85, 109 Segment - B22, 28 Points connected by a line	11 Five-Branched Tree 5 Side A Positions - 8, 16, 57, 85, 90 Segments - A3, 5, 15, 21, 22 Envelop 6 Side B Positions - 9, 29, 58, 66, 79, 111 Segments - B3, 8, 15, 18, 21, 29	15 Golden Fleece 10 Side A Positions - 9, 10, 30, 34, 47, 58, 59, 72, 99, 103 Segments - A3, 3, 9, 9, 12, 15, 15, 19, 24, 25 The Inner Plane 5 Side B Positions - 35, 52, 74, 104, 114 Segments - B9, 14, 19, 27, 29
17 Evans did not orient the shield to the hexagonal pattern. Shield of the 7 Planets 15 Side A Positions - 11, 21, 23, 35, 39, 51, 60, 64, 79, 88, 95, 100, 106, 114, 120 Segments - A3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30 Star Sirius with 7 Planets and the Moon 2 Side B Positions - 100, 118 Segments - B26, 30 Points connected by a line	19 Minyae Crested Dancer 14 Side A Positions - 12, 22, 36, 40, 48, 52, 61, 65, 73, 80, 89, 96, 107, 121 Segments - A3, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, 30 Cave of Zeus Spinning World-Disk 5 Side B Positions - 11, 54, 78, 110, 119 Segments - B3, 14, 20, 28, 30 Octahedron	3 Evans may have seen this as the intersection of a road. Adjacent Angle 3 Side A Positions - 17, 26, 86 Segments - A5, 9, 21 Obtuse Triangle
9 Telescope 5 Side A Positions - 18, 44, 53, 69, 77 Segments - A5, 12, 14, 18, 19 In and Out 4 Side B Positions - 4, 24, 98, 108 Segments - B2, 6, 25, 26 Illusion	6 Constellation Capricorn Horn 5 Side A Positions - 24, 37, 49, 62, 91 Segments - A7, 10, 13, 16, 22 Flip it 1 Side B Positions - 77 Segments - B20	5 Constellation Aquila Winged Disk, Vulture 5 Side A Positions - 25, 38, 50, 63, 92 Segments - A7, 10, 13, 16, 22 Flip it again 0 Side B
1 Did Evans think this is a UFO? A Star 1 Side A Positions - 27 Segments - A8 0 Side B	12 Evans may have used a straight edge to draw this pictograph. Pyramid 6 Side A Positions - 28, 31, 43, 68, 93, 117 Segments - A8, 9, 12, 18, 23, 30 Palace in the Desert 6 Side B Positions - 13, 23, 30, 63, 87, 97 Segments - 4, 6, 8, 17, 23, 25 Where We Study Stars	4 Goddess Rhea 2 Side A Positions - 29, 94 Segments - A8, 23 2 Side B Positions - 10, 59 Segments - B3, 15 Rise Above It
3 Constellation Corvus 2 Side A Positions - 32, 78 Segments - A9, 19 Points connected by a line 1 Side B Positions - 57 Segments - B15	2 A yoke at the least, but it seems Evans saw breasts. Astronomy Glasses Binoculars 1 Side A Positions - 33 Segments - A9 1 Side B Positions - 64 Segments - B17 Winged Disk	2 Evans perhaps recognized it as a bull's foot but drew it facing the wrong way. Constellation Taurus Bull's Foot 2 Side A Positions - 42, 67 Segments - A11, 17 Points connected by a line
7 Constellation Argo 2 Side A Positions - 46, 71 Segments - A12, 18 5 Side B Positions - 3, 32, 73, 83, 105 Segments - B2, 9, 19, 22, 27 Open and Shut	6 Evans drew this as a Sawfish. Constellation Pisces Sharp-Snout Fish 2 Side A Positions - 54, 90 Segments - A14, 26 4 Side B Positions - 55, 61, 92, 103 Segments - B15, 16, 24, 26 Sharp-Snout Fish	1 Evans apparently identified this pictograph as a bow. Constellation Cancer Nile Crab 1 Side A Positions - 74 Segments - B18 0 Side B
4 Evans modified this pictograph to a type of trident. Grass 1 Side A Positions - 75 Segments - B18 3 Side B Positions - 14, 56, 93 Segments - B4, 15, 24 Scalene Triangle	18 Pomegranate/Star Starseed Evans perhaps saw this pictograph as a woman's breast. 3 Side A Positions - 79, 87, 97 Segments - A20, 25, 28 Acute Triangle 15 Side B Positions - 1, 7, 12, 18, 25, 26, 28, 31, 37, 41, 48, 82, 90, 112, 115 Segments - B1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 21, 23, 29, 30 Constellation Argos	6 Daedalus Wings of Icarus 3 Side A Positions - 97 Segments - A24 Right Triangle 3 Side B Positions - 75, 80, 118 Segments - B20, 21, 30 Obtuse Triangle
2 Roll-Up 2 Side A Positions - 81, 85 Segments - A20, 21 Points connected by a line 0 Side B	5 Dactyloi 1 Side A Positions - 97 Segments - A24 4 Side B Positions - 17, 36, 45, 47 Segments - B5, 10, 12, 12, 13 Cone	1 Stylized Pig, A Star 1 Side A Positions - 98 Segments - A24 0 Side B
6 Tsunami Wave 2 Side A Positions - 102, 112 Segments - A25, 28 4 Side B Positions - 2, 27, 42, 113 Segments - B1, 7, 11, 29 Volume	1 Evans removed the shield this warrior is holding and portrayed him as a captive instead. Very early concept of Zeus Constellation Orion Could be the signature of the artist of the disk, whose name might mean "Hand Shield," like King Pacal of the Maya 1 Side A Positions - 106 Segments - A26 0 Side B	1 Evans omitted this pictograph. Constellaton Canis Major Dog Scratching 1 Side A Positions - 108 Segments - A27 0 Side B
10 Constellation Leo Lion, Goddess 2 Side A Positions - 109, 112 Segments - A27, 28 8 Side B Positions - 6, 20, 39, 43, 46, 50, 62, 70 Segments - B2, 5, 10, 11,12,13, 16, 18	1 Evans did not distinquish between these two pictographs. Constellation Canis Minor Dog 1 Side A Positions - 110 Segments - A27 0 Side B	6 Evans gave the second level four sections instead of three. Palenquin Pasiphae's Bed? Minoan Palenquin, Knossos Fresco 1 Side A Positions - 116 Segments - A29 5 Side B Positions - 22, 68, 69, 81, 102 Segments - B6, 18, 18, 21, 26
2 Evans seemed to think this pictograph is a bug. Sacred Ivy Sacred Ivy from a mural at Knossos 0 Side A 2 Side B Positions - 5, 34 Segments - B2, 9	2 Evans omitted this pictograph. Hoe 0 Side A 2 Side B Positions - 8, 33 Segments - B3, 9	1 Evans gave the ram an ear and omitted the nose. Constellation Aries Ram 0 Side A 1 Side B Positions - 15 Segments - A4
2 Sacred Cave Entrance Hoodwink of a Priest's Robe 0 Side A 2 Side B Positions - 16, 53 Segments - B4, 14	4 Evans saw this pictograph as an olive branch. Plant 0 Side A 4 Side B Positions - 19, 38, 49, 76 Segments - B5, 10, 13, 20 Symmetry	6 Gauge 1 Side A Positions - 33 Segments - A9 5 Side B Positions - 21, 40, 86, 106, 117 Segments - B5, 10, 22, 27, 30 Pyramids
2 Shell, Trumpet 0 Side A 2 Side B Positions - 65, 99 Segments - B17, 24	2 Constellation Aquarius 0 Side A 2 Side B Positions - 67, 101 Segments - B18, 26	1 Evans did not count the 20 inside dots. Milky Way Half Moon 0 Side A 1 Side B Positions - 84 Segments - B22
1 Axe Typhon's Hatchet Labrys or Labyrinth (Maze) also meant "Axe" 0 Side A 1 Side B Positions - 91 Segments - B22	1 Evans did not count the 20 dots inside the triangle. Volcano 0 Side A 1 Side B Positions - 96 Segments - B23	1 Constellation Gemini Divine Child 0 Side A 1 Side B Positions - 107 Segments - B28

The Phaistos Disk provided me an opportunity to study material outside the realm of English literature but within the realm of my first love, mythology. This new material included geometry, mathematics, archaeology, astronomy, ancient pictographs, and the antique science of containment of geometrical arrangements. The Phaistos Disk taught me plane geometry as it existed before Euclid complicated it, when he got hold of it 1,300 years after the disk was created, and before the Georgia school systems tried to teach it to me with no success 3,600 years later. Geometry is a universal language providing a portal into this Minoan world so old that the Greek poet Homer in 800 BCE called it ancient and forgotten.

After 15 years as a student in this phenomenal university, I have completed my studies and am now publishing these conclusions. On my computer are 2GB's of space dedicated to the disk and to images of it involving geometry, astronomy and mythology, but this website contains only what seems to me to be the most important information. I have learned something about what is involved in understanding this artifact and I have offered many different decipherments.

The number of decipherments I explored was an attempt on my part to be as thorough as possible and also it was the result of having to work backwards through time to arrive at understanding. First I explored, by necessity, popular cultural beliefs that were built up over time, culture after culture, to our modern times' perspective. And each age I researched had its own popular cultural superstitions and beliefs, many of which were also explored. This is like running a maze, not knowing which way to turn, which theory to embrace, but always learning something about myself, my ideas, the way I think, my own belief systems.

The picture of the labyrinth is thus offered to us as emblematic of the whole labour of the Great Work, with its two major difficulties, one the path which must be taken in order to reach the center-where the bitter combat of the two natures takes place-the other the way the artist must follow in order to emerge. It is there that the thread of Ariadne becomes necessary for him, if he is not to wander among the winding paths of the task, unable to extricate himself. (Fulcanelli)

I give up on extricating myself from this work that I love. The way I see it, after all this time and meandering through this maze, only two decipherments are possible: absolute and relative. Absolute decipherment refers to what is explicit on the Phaistos Disk for anyone to see and recognize. I am the only one to see something explicit on the disk that everyone else missed, which encourages some reviewers to suggest it is not really there. My decipherment is absolute in the sense that anyone could have found the hidden images on the disk if they had thought to do what I did, simply connect with lines the identical pictographs that produce the images. The images though hidden are explicitly there once someone realizes to connect the identical pictographs with lines just in case something emerges that makes sense. At least one thing is certain from this method; connect-the-dots has been around since the Phaistos Disk was created.

My definition of absolute decipherment makes me wonder sometimes if the Phaistos Disk is the legendary Philosophers' Stone.

We would point out that this term (Absolum) is close to the Absolute, which is the name by which the ancient alchemists designated the philosophers' stone. (Walter Lang)

What these hidden images mean, produced from absolute decipherment, is part of relative decipherment, which refers to the interpretation of what is explicit on the disk. For example, a studied relative decipherment of these four images, derived from this method of absolute decipherment involving connecting identical pictorgraphs with lines, is that the cave is the Cave of Zeus, the boat is constellation Argos, the star is Sirius within the seven planets, and the pyramid is the Great Pyramid.

As for the pictographs, all decipherments of the pictographs are relative decipherments because they must always arise from the decipherer's personal perspective, cumulative knowledge, and area of research. For example, a linguist deciphers the pictographs as an ancient language, an historian might say the disk hails from somewhere other than Crete, a board game collector deciphers the disk as an ancient game, an Ancient Egypt enthusiast deciphers the disk as an Egyptian myth (that one is mine), an admirer of Linear B deciphers the disk as more Linear A, a calendar researcher deciphers the disk as an ancient calendar (me also), a computer programmer deciphers the disk as an ancient computer disk, and a UFO researcher finds a UFO on the disk and deciphers the disk as an alien artifact (me again). The number of decipherments possible has a correlation to the number of people who try to decipher it. How can the Phaistos Disk accommodate so well all the different versions of it? I think I know.

The Phaistos Disk may fit everyone's idea of it simply because it may be a very good small model of the universe - a disk of the world - and nothing accommodates everyone's point of view so well as the universe. Perhaps this is the whole idea behind the creation of the disk. If so, it proves itself like a mathematical theorem. If it was intended this way, it certainly is successful. The disk has more than proved to me that it accommodates whatever decipherment I come up with, and I have come up with quite a few.

As long as you stay within the context of the ancient Aegean world, you can come up with a very good relative decipherment. But back to the absolute decipherment. By connecting exactly identical pictographs with lines, many images are revealed that would be hard to imagine are just randomly there on the disk, even when the disk is a small model of the universe. In most cases I connected the dots in all the ways possible to arrive at the image displayed, by which I mean I didn't just arbitrarily connect this one to that one, without connecting it to the other one if I could. This method of decipherment produces images recognizable by everyone everywhere. Therefore, I suggest these images are archetypes or original models or patterns from which copies were made, or out of which later forms developed. The disk may have been a model or archetype for other disks, none of which survived or which are still undiscovered.

For nearly 100 years now, individuals have attempted to decipher the disk by reading the pictographs as though they were hieroglyphs, a method that always produces a relative decipherment, and one which the decipherer is absolutely convinced is the one and only decipherment. But by reading the signs differently - connecting them together with lines - the decipherer produces an absolute decipherment that speaks for itself, and which is open to interpretation by anyone who sees it, just as the disk is.

In conclusion, the absolute decipherment of the Phaistos Disk is achieved by connecting identical pictographs with lines to produce easily identifiable images. This also includes joining the two sides together at the matching line segments to produce the images associated with the Minoan civilization -- the Minoan wave spiral and the Minoan figure 8 shield. For my relative decipherment of the images and the pictographs, I stay within the context of the Minoan civilization, where the disk was found.

CONCLUSIONS:

(1) The Phaistos Disk may be the Great Flood artifact of the antediluvian world, created shortly after the flood/tsunami to record both the event and the explanation for the great catastrophy.

(2) The Minoan inventor Daedalus probably created the Phaistos Disk Maze of Daedalus, giving us a Wings of Icarus view of his world-view that includes the cosmic calendar he likely invented. If Daedalus never lived, the name may mean "Inspiration."

(3) Two Minoan astronomer-priests are portrayed on the Phaistos Disk, perhaps Daedalus and his son Icarus, and they probably represent all the Minoan astronomer-priests during that time.

(4) Daedalus probably invented the telescopes and binoculars used by Minoan astronomer-priests, along with the printing press technology used to create the disk and even the kiln to fire it, now lost. Alternately, the Phaistos Disk may have been fired in a pottery factory in Egypt or it may have been "fired" by the fire that burned Phaistos Palace.

"Everywhere in the ruins Evans found signs of uncontrollable fire – charred beams and pillars, blackened walls, and clay tablets hardened against time's tooth by the conflagration's heat." (Will Durant)

(5) The Phaistos Disk may be an explanatory historical record of the Minoan eruption and tsunami that devastated the northern coast of Crete and undermined the fabulous Minoan civilization, giving rise to the legend of Atlantis and its destruction.

(6) Daedalus probably lived, whoever he really was, and he was probably the world's greatest inventor. He is not unlike Shakespeare, the world's greatest writer, in that we do not know Shakespeare's real identity, either. We know he lived because we have his plays as proof of it. We can accept the Phaistos Disk as proof of the life of Daedalus and his successor, Icarus, and others who followed in that line. They probably not only invented or discovered everything evidenced by the Phaistos Disk but also taught it to the Minoans.

(7) Two such disks may have once existed, one found at Phaistos, Crete and one or more placed either in the subterranean chamber of the Great Pyramid for safekeeping or in Kephren or Mykerinos. Only the one at Phaistos survived, while the pyramid disk may still be there, undiscovered.

(8) The 240 raised pictographs make the disk itself into a two-sided stamp. Perhaps Daedalus and other astronomers pressed each side into the sand so they could use it as a teaching tool. It displayed such a remarkable maze it came to be known as the Maze of Daedalus. Disks like this would be easy to carry and use this way by these "world teachers," who perhaps taught this world soul creation theology.

(9) The Phaistos Disk Maze of Daedalus contains concepts that become, over a period of three millennium, the basis of Greek Mythology, Hermeticism, Alchemy, historical religions and modern mysticism. These concepts engendered Pythagoras' idea of the cosmos (kosmos) and Plato's idea of the World Soul. Although the disk itself remained lost for that period of time, the Inspiration (Daedalus) behind it continued to guide artists and writers throughout the ages. Following are the six main concepts of the theology that seems to be be recorded on the Phaistos Disk Maze of Daedalus:

A. The disk of the world (universe) has a rational order based upon a comprehensible structure that can be described using the universal languages of geometry and mathematics.
B. The disk of the world has two harmonious opposites, one part is a reflection of the other one and existing as a mirror image or a spirit twin.
C. The disk of the world is comprised of pre-existant and eternal archetypes that are mirrored in the stars as constellations.
D. The disk of the world and thus the stars that circumnavigate the Pole Star are spinning in an infinite spiral.
E. The spin creates projections of the pre-existantant geometrical forms and these become the impermanent physical world. (Click the image above to see an example.)
F. The disk of the world is spinning through the Void inside an octahedron (right).

Inside the octahedron, the top disk rests inside the top pyramid, home of the gods (later on in history the Olympians) and represents Heaven and Earth while the bottom disk rests inside the pyramid below, the mirror image of above, later on in history described as home of the Titans - Hades and Tartarus. The Heaven and Earth world is the solar world of light and the daytime; the Hades and Tarturus world is the lunar world of night and darkness. The disk of the world is surrounded by Oceanus, the cosmic ocean that circumnavigates the universe and holds everything within it (see above, the wave spiral).

(10) The pictographs on the Phaistos Disk have been found nowhere else in the Minoan civilization. It is possible they were part of a tattoo language worn by Minoan sailors, who took the language with them to their graves.

"...in those days [of ancient Egypt] of initiate kings and rulers and sages who occupied themselves with the Sacred Science, when the clear Aether spake face to face with them without disguise, or holding back aught, in answer to their deep scrutiny of holy things...In those days so great was their love of the holy mysteries, so high their virtue, that they left the earth below them, and in their deathless souls became 'heaven-walkers' and knowers of things divine." (Thrice-Greatest Hermes, G.R.S. Mead)

Connect with lines all the Heaven-Walkers on the Phaistos Disk to see them heaven-walking in

Taurus, constellation of the bull.

I recently found this on the internet when searching the web for more references to Minoan astronomy than those pointing to my website.

We present the results of orientation studies of important Minoan monuments and our interpretations of their significance for later Greek astronomy. The studies have been made on the hypothesis that the Minoans, via the Mycenaeans, were the source of the Greek lunisolar calendar and the use of bright stars to signal when to begin activities of economic importance, e.g., ploughing and sailing. The palace at Knossos is oriented so that the first rays of the sun at the equinoxes, as they clear the ridge in the east, will strike an usual concave stone in the floor of the corridor immediately adjacent to the pillar crypt area in the west wing. This area is generally considered to be the most sacred part of the first palace. The palace at Zakros is oriented so that from the northern-most corridor of the west wing the moon, as it rose at the southern major standstill, would have been observed to follow the profile of the ridge opposite at the time when the first palace was built (ca 2000 BC). At two peak sanctuaries near Zakros, there are walls oriented such that they could have been used to facilitate observations of the heliacal rising and setting and also the acronychal rising and cosmical setting of the bright star Arcturus ca 1800 BC. In the Minoan ruins of the palaces at Ayia Triada and Mallia, there was constructed a small building of Mycenaean megaron type. Both are oriented to sunset at the summer solstice. We argue from these results that the Minoans had begun systematic observations of the sun, the moon and the bright star Arcturus by the end of the Early Minoan Period (ca 2000 BC). The proximity of Crete to Egypt and the Near East and the documented contact among these regions invite comparison of the calendrical uses of astronomical knowledge in the three areas in the Bronze Age.

Title: Possible Minoan Contributions to Greek Astronomy
Authors: Henriksson, G.; Blomberg, M.
Affiliation: AA(Astronomical Observatory, Box 515, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden), AB(Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, S:t Erikstorg 5, Uppsala, S-75310 Sweden)
Publication: Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting, JENAM-97. 6th European and 3rd Hellenic Astronomical Conference, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-5 July, 1997, Meeting Abstract, p. 332.
Publication Date: 00/1997
Origin: AUTHOR
Bibliographic Code: 1997jena.confE.332H

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