Jonas: Maybe there are more cosmic signs at the disk? Claire: There are many more cosmic signs on the disk, most notably the picture-perfect constellation Argo. To excavate the constellation, connect the 15 Star/Pomegranate pictographs. The Argo completes the holy trinity of early astronomy - Sirius, Argo Navis, the Pleiades, and all of them appear to be on the Phaistos Disk.
The star pictograph resembles pomegranates, the ancient symbol for star. This pomegranate/star
pictograph, in association with the Horai (above), might be a reference to timekeeping as well.
"Sternforward Argo by the Great Dog's tail
Claire Grace Watson examines the patterns on a Mediterranean bronze-age artifact. (David Eppstein, The Geometry Junkyard)
Modern map of the constellation Argo (right) compared with the Phaistos Disk Argo (left).
Excavating the Argo on the Phaistos Disk suggests this pictograph to be the Golden Fleece, so perhaps Jason and the Argonauts of mythology went searching for it beneath the pyramid.
Is the Argo on the Phaistos Disk drawn backwards? More accurate to say, the Argo has been drawn backyards since about 200 BCE or so. The Phaistos Disk Argo shows how the Minoan's drew the original constellation, so the modern constellation has been wrong for at least 2,300 years. Wonder how that could have happened!? Maybe we owe this reversal to Aratos (310-245 BCE), a Greek court philosopher and astronomer who famously wrote (or rather, infamously as it turns out):
Is drawn; for hers is not a usual course,
But backward turned she comes, as vessels do
When sailors have transposed the crooked stern
On entering harbour; all the ship reverse,
And gliding backward on the beach it grounds.
Sternforward thus is Jason's Argo drawn.
The Sunflower pictograph at the center of Side 1 on the Phaistos Disk may indicate influences of Egyptian
theology on Minoan ideas. An identical flower pictograph is seen on this fragment of an Egyptian limestone relief. This Flower of Life
is protected by the goddess Mut, a vulture-version of the goddess Isis, whose image Egyptians placed in tombs to protect the dead in their embryonic
state of re-birth into the afterlife. Above Mut are the stars representing Sirius.
    
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Page 1 - Ancient Puzzle Solved | Brilliant Ancient World
Page 2 - Interview with Jonas | Valuable Background in Bridge
Common Approach | Can You Read the Phaistos Disk?
Self-Hypnosis
Part 3 - Dream Perspective | Great Pyramid, Exterior
Two Pyramids?
Part 4 - Great Pyramid, Interior & Subterranean Chamber
Phaistos Disk Maze of Daedalus
Part 5 - Great Star in the Sky
Part 6 - Constellation Argo
Page 7 - Pre-Euclidean Geometry | Minoan Fashion
Page 8 - Solve the Maze | Minoan Pottery
Page 9 - Minoan Calendars | Minoan Lunisolar Calendar
Zodiac Stellar Calendar | Minoan Sothic Calendar
Minoan 366-Day Year | How Was the Phaistos Disk Made?
Page 10 - Phaistos Disk Pictographs
Page 11 - Fishing Lessons | Big Game Hunter
First Woman Airline Pilot | The Stearman | The AT-6
Page 12 - Brilliant Musician | Debutant Career | English Teacher
Booted Out of School | Hostess Career
Page 13 - Crash Landing | Marauder Pilot | Bridge Boyfriend
Dedicated to Billy | Money Bridge Pro
Archaeoastronomer Career
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