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A radical survey of the
various lay-outs for a precision calendar, based on my discovery of duplexity,
within the realistic borders of the type-face interpretation of the inscription,
as a set-off to the previous opinion of the types as syllables in a
text. Under the on-going process of demonstrating the calendar
path, I go through several arrangements of signs and sign-groups, which strongly
indicate 'like brooks make river' that these hieroglyphs represents something
else than language, satisfactory shown in the three initial examples right
beneath:
- The 46 individual signs & The 22 stem-forms - I define a stem as
two signs, and ' hey presto! 'all hurdles vanish into thin air
... - The 61 dissimilar elements - Yet another rabbit out
of the magicians top hat - The 50 stem-sign-groups on a
string. - An alternative, vertical and non-linear, direction of reading.
The quadrature of the (calendar)
circle.
Writers are divided about the numbers of characters on the
disc. I have come across the totals: 241, 242 and 243, of which 242 characters
is the most common opinon (i). 242 is written as 11² + 11².
(indicators) As something new I contemplate the two dotted dividers
ahead of A01 and B01 as true characters, and the total amount is in my view 242
+ 2 = 244 characters or 10² + 12². As it happens 244 is a multiple of 61, which
is of statistical significance, because the disc is divided into exactly 61 (5²
+ 6²) signgroups. Accordingly the signgroups hold an average of exactly four
signs. After this, the calendar prospect get into the picture, as six
multiplied with 61 is equal to 366, corresponding to a leap year, and 365 - 244
= 121, thus the inscription is missing 11² characters. 10² +( 11² )+ 12² = 365.
This missing third part has no substantial presence in the inscription, but
stands abbreviated (ii) As you see eleven rules as the common
denominator.
The visible inscription ,with its actual 244 characters,
corresponds with two third of a year or eight months, in which side A's now 124
characters could represent four months of 31 days each, and side B's 120 are
equal to four months of 30 days (iii). In this same way all other revised enumerations become full of
hope, when you are ready to accept the two circumferential dividers as true
characters. So why choose 241 and chaos? when nothing talks against 244 signs in
harmony Through my method of investigation and its results as
an entirety, which presumably reveals a Minoan calendar, I have gained the
authority to claim those above data, which do not speak in favour of a
language.
If you as an editor of a good
standing periodical see this page and take interest in my discovery, then please
contact me for a solitary publication of my proposal for an alternative
alphabetic notation. This would be a helpful introduction for everyone, who
wants to study those hieroglyphs, not as syllables, but as quantities, and a
great support for me. A text should be reduced to a brief editorial comment. -
This would be perfection. -
Three decisive openings, as a consequence of the
twenty-two stem-forms :
- The six initial sign-groups of side A are in continuation
of side B, giving part A and part B. -My advancements are numerous. As an
example, this figure emphasizes that the inscription is a folding up of two
variations over the same manifest. - The
super-relation between the thirty-three pair of stems and the reduced stems "The
Gnomonical arrangement", - and therefore this inscription is not
language. - That is a proof -. The two halves are profoundly congruent.
-
The calendar takes form, when the two initial signs in front of A01 and B01 are
interpreted as part of the sign-material. -It is a fact that a count with
244 signs instead, makes an eight month calendar a reality
In any cryptanalytic problem a single sure entry
solves the problem (iv) :
I have defined a stem as a sequence
of two signs, repeated in at least one more sign-group. The stem is not
allowed to overlap any other stem, which can be confirmed by a more often
presence. It is naive, if not suspect to argue
that the unravelling of the 70 stems are just a two way choice 'either calendar
or language'. They were a million way choice.There are no comparison between
the common process of getting familiar with an inscription, for instance by
recognizing that B22 and B29 are related groups, or to observe that B21 is a
repititon of B26 etc., contra the process of realising the absolute amount of 70
stems, which is a countable and sophisticated product.
THE STEMS ARE MADE CONCLUSIVE.
Conclusion - Postscript
During one hundred years (3500 years?) nothing occured. Now
suddently a handle appears out of its smooth surface. A storage medium , a compact disc: Imagine a
scenario of 22 couples holding 61 weekly meetings each year If B, by way of
example, is unavoidable detained, then A stands as surety:(B)A. All 22
couples are obliged to participate by both in at least two weekly gatherings pro
anno. A further set of complicated rules are followed strictly, and carefully
entered into the annual minutes. Such construction, in its broader
aspects, corresponds better with the platonic bodies that I've discovered,
whereas a language-structure in verse and with rhymes and grammar do not
produces minutely gnomonical arrangements by itself (v). Had this
been the case, then similar linguistic paradigmae would have been available from
the literature, under the device "Nothing new under the sun", - they are not!
- E.F.A.N.K. - ( Evidence for a non-linguistic key to the problem
). Point: The various translation attempts don't even follow a common
agreement upon the breaking up of the entirety into sentences, because of the
complexity of the postulated texts. Also the disc contains as many as 53
different signgroups out of 61.
Let the high flying notions that these hieroglyphs represent a text simultaneously be pigeonholed for the far out future instead. and keep concentrated on the annual ledger inside
Postscript, continued...
Now when the probability has been made, that the signgroups are
not inevitably words, but rather ideographic records of weekly functions, then
new prospects of investigations emerge, in contrast to the thoroughly tested
standard of references to the linear inscriptions from Crete. To put an
interpretation on pictures from the edge of historic time is very interesting,
but also continually reflected by the imperfect documentation, though perhaps
there will also be shown to be an analogy to something of common historical
property, what concerns the imagery of the signs, or it will show that the
pictorial message is a sealed chapter in an even higher extent, than e.g. the
symbols of the never doubted Maya calendar. Let me emphasize, that my
superior objective with this investigation was to attain insight in the
regularities, from which the sequences of signs were composed. In other words, I
was not occupied with interpretations of the signs as images, but with an
investigation of their interrelations and frequencies. This proved to be the
right angel of approach. The accomplishment of my decoding of the inscription
implied a good number of disciplines, yet I am still not adept on calendar
mathematic, and the continued unravelling of this calendar I shall leave to the
readers, when a mention of my 'unexpected discovery' of the true proportions is effected in a way, proportional to the importance of
my discovery, that everyone who has tried his hand at this enigmatic disc,
amateurs as well as scholars, in this way shall get admission to my results.
Then I trust, that someone among the readers will take inspiration from my
method of investigation and its result, to place the last intricate piece, by
the aid of one of my variations over this newfound calendar, and thereby finally
confirm my decipherment. It ought not to take that long. The science of counting things is basically the
discipline of turning problems into enumeration statements to find out if they
can be solved this way.
My statistics are hold on several related levels
within the stem concept.
[1] The visible sign-material of 242 signs and the two initial
dividers regarded as part of the inscription, giving 244 signs. - Alpha minus -(no thorns)61 x4 [2]. The
same material added the 17 thorn-units, giving 244+17=261 units. - Alpha plus -.29 x 9 [3]. The
expanded inscription. The above 261 units together with the absent 104 units
from the incomplete (reduced) elements, giving 261+104=365 units, or
262+104=366, if 18 thorns. - Beta plus -.
61 x 6 244+104=348, (no thorns) - Beta
minus -.29 x12 [4]. Finally 'The
alternative calendar'. Here I choose to combine 44 consequtive reduced
elements into 22 so-called "combies", leaving only 60 reduced elements instead
of the otherwise 104. Following these metrical footsteps : _ . _ . _ . _ . _
. _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _ . _
. _ . Recently I have implicated a variation called ”The
fleur-de-lis calendar" in which I am probing the possibility of
an intentional obliterated sign in A08 and the common uncertainty about the
numbers of thorns of which 16, 17, or 18 have been suggested. Total
243+103+18=364 units [5]. 'Husk
& Kernel calendar'."The relation between the
signs and the sign-groups is calendrical". Signs =244. Arcs and
dividers =60+61 =365 units This taken into consideration, you can
trust that my figures and my enumerations are as precise as can be. By being
conversant with the use of my designations, you'll find that everything is not
so difficult, as it seems. - It
is a geometrical solution -.
Resumé
OK, let us do some housecleaning, here - In my endeavour to
pour the "philosopher's stone" in one piece, I had to invent two separate
keys. First key:The seventy genuine stems. - Leading to the conclusion: The gnomonical
arrangement, through the aid of multiplica of eleven. The two halves are
congruent. Good-bye language! - Now eased in mind, let us continue in confidence
with our newly acquired knowledge. What is next? Second key:The two (pearl-decorated) initial
dividers harmonize the inscription into a perfect eight months calendar.
To be combined with the seventy stems through abbreviations "reduced
stems" to become a full circle 366-day calendar. NB. My many figures are only depending in part on the "reduced
stems". The expansion, through abbreviations, to a full calendar is mainly a
logical improvement.
Supplementary notes.
This paper is a
revised and expanded version of a little preprint in 50 copies, which I had
issued for about twenty years back (some few copies are availiable from the
author), but as I feel that my method of investigation and its results deserves
some more attention, I have, against my own interests, used further- more time
to demonstrate more perspectives of my discovery.
(i). These differing opinions
are all about, whether the only illegible character on the disc, the outlying
sign in A08, is obliterated by design, or failing that, if two signs were in its
place. I accept any sign , but I prefer a stemsign of stemgroup II, and the sign
"P" is the best match. [In contrast: this is not a mere 'choice by chance', but has back-up from an unmistakable and coherent arrangement of the stem-elements. -Through all ages, a textbook example in code-breaking!]. (ii). Ottomar und
Malte, Neuss: Der Diskos von Phaistos 'Kryptogramm eines
Kalenders- Interpretation eines Kulttextes aus Kreta', Kurz und Gut heft 1
(Frankfurt 1975) calls attention to this fact: Face B's 119 signs plus twice
face A's 123 signs establish 365 signs in total [The nextbest proposal following language will be a calendar. Are those twin-brothers our stars, if a calendar?] So too L. Pomerance, The
Phaestos Disc. An interpretation of Astronomical Symbols (Göteborg 1976) 34. 'By
turning the Disc eleven times and observing it twelve times, the total annual
count comes to 366 unit days...'. - Ergo: side A's 31 and side B's 30 signgroups
compose two months in this opinion. (iii). It is worth
notice, that the glossary of linear B contains eight words
only, which are considered to be names of months. John Chadwick, Documents in
Mycenaean Greek (Cambridge 1956). (iv). A quotation
from Benjamin Schwartz, The Phaistos Disc I. (JNES XVIII 1959), 108. [Used as defense for his choice of "crested warrior" as the vowel "A", on that he leans back,and exile from this topic, unhurt.- Shall he at last bear the palm alone, if the warrior turns out an "A"?]
(v). The main reason why this calendar was
overlooked, is in my opinion the different amounts of characters in the
signgroups (from two to seven), which have misled several generations of
researchers to believe, that the inscription was inevitably writing. Besides,
the statistical informations of initial, medial and final placing of the
characters, do not set themselves against the signgroups being words, until the
22 stemforms are defined/chosen. (vi). Davis, Simon,
The decipherment of the Minoan Linear A and Pictographic Scripts (Johannesburg
1967), fig.97. This actual quadripartited sealstone can be seen as a kri-kris,
partial hidden behind a bush (only its horn visible), and a startled bird
(heliacal rising of Venus?). The seal (impression?) has some analogy with the
signgroup A09 . [Leon Pomerance essential leans back in trust that these are the constellations Eagle and Snake in his very entertaining book.-Is he our true champion?] (vii). Ideograph Written or
printed character that symbolizes the idea of a thing without indicating the
sounds that make up the word. (The A.L.D of Current English) (viii). Phaistos disc. Other spellings: Phaestos, Faestos, Faistos
.. (ix). E.F.A.N.K Evidences for a non-linguistic key to the
problem. (x); but to settle the disc to be nothinge else, but a calendar, was indeed a scoop!
" You cannot change the eternal circles of the celestial
bodies; but the grammar of an extinct language you can easily make up
"
Now I've ended my analysis of the consequences of the 22 stemforms.
Besides I've analysed the consequences 'by the instrumentality of a mirror' of
the reflections to my discovery, tempting the great risk of (definition:) being
sacrificed by disingenuous persons, taking bites out of the bigger context with
the unintelligible wish to do harm This stuff is available among various
newsgroups.Discussions. essential
thirteen Anecdotes I take
myself as a marathon man (2) from the moment, when I did show forward my
discovery in trust and confidence, to 'the still to come' moment of acceptance
of my decipherment. The resistance against my results was starting where it
should have ended. You react creatively towards natural and neccesary
opposition, opposite, than to the complementary not neccesary and artificial
kind. (I pity you for not antcipating the coming of internet. Did'nt I?).
1985:
Professor Kristian Jeppesen, - professor Kirsten Hastrup, - lecturer Jens
Høyrup, - 1986: Sfinx, Chief-editor Erik Hallager - C. Niebuhr Institut,
Amumiensis Aage Westenholz. - 1987: Studies in Mediterreanean
Archaeology, Paul Åkstrøm, - Fogtdals Blade A/S, Inge Damm, - 1988:
Harvard university library, - Astronomisk Tidsskrift, G. Larson Leander, -
Illustreret Videnskab, Mogens Esrom Larsen, - 1989: Norseman federatjon,
Johan Heyerdahl, - Walther de Gruyter Kadmos, Dr. M.L. Liebe Harkort, - Gnomon,
Dr. Ernst Vogt, - Dr. John Chadwick, - Ord&Bild, Michael Løfgren, -
Statistical Methods In Linguistic, Doc. Hans Carlgren, - Naional Geographic
society, - Bech'sche Verlag, - JNES, Editor Robert D. Biggs, - Museum of
Iraclion Library, C. H Kritzaz, - Minos, University of Salamanca, - 1990:
AJA, Fred S. Kleiner, - Astronomisk Selskab, Allan Hornstrup, - 1997: American
Mathematical Monthly, Richard Bumby. - 1998: New Scientist, John hoyland -
Scientific American, - - California press, Berkeley, Kate Toll. - Anistoriton,
Prof. Demetris I. Loizos. - Etc., etc.,etc . . . 2000. Godfather beware me well!
- The 46 individual signs & The 22 stem-forms
- The 61 dissimilar elements
- The 50 stem-sign-groups on a
string.
- The six initial sign-groups of side A are in continuation
of side B, giving part A and part B.
- The
super-relation between the thirty-three pair of stems and the reduced stems "The
Gnomonical arrangement", 
-
The calendar takes form, when the two initial signs in front of A01 and B01 are
interpreted as part of the sign-material.
I have defined a stem as a sequence
of two signs,
