(August 10, 2022) The Phaistos Disk is the missing link connecting Mesopotamian cuneiform Akkadian with its later Mediterranean alphabetic forms. It is the first open philosophical debate in history having as its subject the cause of the current drought.
For translation methodology see: How to Translate Alphabetic Akkadian Texts
(August 27, 2022) Crete started to be settled by the Neolithic farmers around 7,000 BCE who established the city of Knossos (Evans, 1994). Settlements were soon established all across the island (Tomkins, 2008). The Minoan civilization emerged around 3000 BCE when a noticeable increase in the number and sophistication of its material goods occurred. The Minoan civilization ended on Crete when the island was conquered by the Myceneans around 1450 BCE which was between the volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini in 1620 BCE (Höflmayer 2012) and before the Great Drought of 1170 BCE which ended the Bronze Age. So what motivated this invasion is unknown.
The Phaistos Disk is a hybrid phonetic/alphabetic text dating to about 1900 BCE which is at the end of the 4.2 ka BP event (4,200 before present drought). It is a philosophical/religious debate about the cause of a recent drought. Additionally, it shows the start of the three main fault lines in Druidic culture which would soon develop into their own subcultures (religions) which are: Aegean (don't mix the life and magical motion power classes), Phoenician/Punic (devoted to the magical motion powers), Israelite (devoted to the life powers). Minoans already seem to be leaning towards the Aegean position.
(July 9, 2022) The Phaistos Disc was discovered during the 1908 excavation of the Phaistos palace on Crete. This dig was directed by Italian Archaeologist Luigi Pernier. The disk was not found during excavation hours but at seven in the afternoon of July 3 during evening inspection of the site by excavation foreman Zacharias Iliakis (Anastasiadou 2016). It was found in a cellar close by to a linear-A tablet in a soil layer containing ash and charcoal. The soil debris layer in which they were found indicates that the tablets fell from a 2nd story during a fire.
(August 11, 2022, Updated December 4, 2024) Each number labeled section represents an Akkadian phrase. The text starts from the outer ring and moves inwards.
(Update April 19, 2024, Updated December 4, 2024)
(August 10, 2022, Updated December 4, 2024) This side of the disk is promoting spiritual energy to keep the balance of nature (life). Such energy is sourced from the dark new moon and eye pupil god Su and human inner emotions.
Each number labeled section represents an Akkadian phrase. The text starts from the outer ring and moves inwards.
This is called the 4.2 ka BP event.
Speleothem are water deposited minerals in caves like stalactites. The ratio of heavy oxygen 18 to normal light oxygen 16 in the seeping mineral water is an indicator of rainfall because rain from evaporated water has more of the lighter oxygen. The chart on the left has data from the following caves:
Renella Cave is in Central Italy
Mavri Trypa Cave in the southwest corner of the Peloponnese in southern Greece
Skala Marion cave is in Thassos Island, northern Greece
Solufar cave is in northern Anatolia
Bini and all (2019) The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview. Climate of the Past, 15, 555–577, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-555-2019,
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