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Does anyone know more about these discs??
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 01:39 PM
"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history." - Robert Heinlein
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 01:46 PM
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Good find Coredrill! Never heard of these before. They look interesting, and maybe even amateur "Sleuths" might get a shot at deciphering them!
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 01:54 PM
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i've read a few things about them. some say that they are minoan A, some say minoan B, others that it is a script related to minoan but currently undeciphered. i've never seen colour pictures of them though.
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 02:30 PM
Yes. I had the pleasure of seeing the disc a few years ago at the excellent archeological museum in the city of Heraklion on Crete. It is beautiful; its pictures do not do it justice.
In the museum bookshop, I bought a copy of Louis Godart's well-illustrated book The Phaistos Disc: The enigma of an Aegean script (there were several editions in different languages) Itanos Publications, 1995.
In the museum bookshop, I bought a copy of Louis Godart's well-illustrated book The Phaistos Disc: The enigma of an Aegean script (there were several editions in different languages) Itanos Publications, 1995.
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 02:48 PM
Thanks for sharing. Where's Sitchin when you need him????
Truely a curiosity and an interesting one at that!!!
Truely a curiosity and an interesting one at that!!!
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 04:10 PM
I don't know why, but when I first looked at the pictures the first thing that sprang to mind was "board game".
This is totally off the wall, but to me the segmented pathway that spirals towards the center looks like it should be used with dice or some other way of counting.
Is this the original "Monopoly" game?
This is totally off the wall, but to me the segmented pathway that spirals towards the center looks like it should be used with dice or some other way of counting.
Is this the original "Monopoly" game?
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but a gazing-stock is the fool who sits
mid the wise, and nothing knows."
from the Elder or Poetic Edda
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 04:17 PM
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Is this the original "Monopoly" game?
Nope, but it could be a version of "the duck game", very popular in the Mediterranean [smirk]
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Posted 03 October 2007 - 05:42 PM
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Yes. I had the pleasure of seeing the disc a few years ago at the excellent archeological museum in the city of Heraklion on Crete. It is beautiful; its pictures do not do it justice.
In the museum bookshop, I bought a copy of Louis Godart's well-illustrated book The Phaistos Disc: The enigma of an Aegean script (there were several editions in different languages) Itanos Publications, 1995.
In the museum bookshop, I bought a copy of Louis Godart's well-illustrated book The Phaistos Disc: The enigma of an Aegean script (there were several editions in different languages) Itanos Publications, 1995.
I've also had the pleasure of visiting this fantastic museum, i only had half a day to study the exhibits, not nearly long enough.
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Posted 04 October 2007 - 06:46 PM
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Hah, maybe the creators simply thought one day "Lets confuse people of the future by creating disks full of symbols without meaning!"
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Posted 04 October 2007 - 07:11 PM
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Nope, but it could be a version of "the duck game", very popular in the Mediterranean [smirk]
I thought that I was pulling a wise-crack, but after seeing this:
I am not so sure.
Now, if we want to keep speculating, Gerard de Sede in his book Le Mystère de Compostela attributes the origin of this game to an ancient initiation rite.
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Posted 05 October 2007 - 12:47 AM
The "Board Game" theory somehow makes sense. Board game symbols would be a extremely hard to translate and decypher if you did not know the rules or even what it was. Maybe someday there will be a "Monopoly" Board hanging in a museum with the legend "Map of Famous City" underneath.
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Posted 05 October 2007 - 05:38 AM
That is the best explaination of these disk that I have yet read! Imagine if they have been hassling the whole time with deciphering it and it is just a board game! 
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Posted 05 October 2007 - 02:08 PM
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That is the best explaination of these disk that I have yet read! Imagine if they have been hassling the whole time with deciphering it and it is just a board game!
Scientist would be quite happy if they discovered that this was actually a board game. They would have their explanation and that is it. Now, I am not so sure about occultists, alchemists and similar ists... they would be quite annoyed that the content of this disk is not the lost knowledge of Atlantis.
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Posted 06 October 2007 - 05:16 AM
"The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history." - Robert Heinlein