Re: International Conference on the Phaistos Disk

On Jul 24, 1:35 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Curious that no one else thinks that the usual understanding of the
"origin of the alphabet" has been "overturned."

Where, BTW, do I say anything about the question in WWS?

Don't you believe in the Phoenician invention of the alphabet?
Well, there was an earlier alphabet, invented somewhere
between 1700 and 1650 BC, in honor of the goddess
Demeter-Elaia and her daughter Nyx, whose name was taboo,
and so the script was secret, only for initiates, a peculiar
alphabet conveying both phonetic and visual messages,
which double task is the reason for homophony, e.g. six
different alphas. The Elaia disk represents Elaia's grove
at Phigalia, the text instructs visitors how to evoke Nyx and
get her oracle. The complementary Tiryns disk represents
Tiryns, on the disk called Slryns (sigma lamda rho ...),
the rosette in the center the still extant rosette of big supporing
blocks at the base of the former Circular Building, also the
Zeus shrine in the former Circular Building, also a lunisolar
calendar, and on the phonetic level emphatic sigma, begin
of Ss-Ey-R Sseyr, Doric Sseus, Homeric Zeus. The spiral
text equates the Zeus from Mount Lycaion with the Zeus
of Tiryns, and the shining town with the shining god, and
Eponymous Tiryns both with the town and the god - deification
of Eponymous Tiryns, Homer's Lord Laertes of the lineage
Zeus - Arkisios - Laertes - Odysseus - Telemachos, about
2700 - 2200 - 1700 - 1200 - 700 BC respectively. The margin
represents the wall around Tiryns, and the text, exactly filling
the circle of the margin, just leaving free the entrance, works
as magic enforcement of the wall: a banning formula, four
curses of an archaic power. We know still very little about
Greece in the making, and specifically about the Argolis in
the Middle Helladic period of time. Owing to Derk Ohlenroth
we can now read the Elaia disk, the Tiryns disk, the inscription
on the bronze double axe from Arkalokhori, and the inscription
on the altar stone from Mallia on the phonetic level, tackle
the visual language of the disks, and via their visual messages
link them to other finds, for example the gold signet ring from
Tiryns, and make them speak again ... Champollion had to
die and lie twenty years in the ground before his decipherment
of the Egyptian hieroglyphs was accepted. I wish Derk Ohlenroth
a better fate. Alas, not every great achievement is getting
acknowledged during someone's lifetime. There are too many
Panu Petteri Höglunds and John Bulkington63s around, on
every level of the humanities. The mob rules, also in academe.
.

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