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15 sats \ 5 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jan \ parent \ on: The Disc of Phaistos: A Silent Message From a Lost Age Education
For sure it's proto cretan, pictographic style. I follow the path towards a magic or religious song, part of an agricultural tradition
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 16 Jan
OK, but it is a code for what they wanted to say or do. It is language frozen into time for whatever purpose it was supposed to serve. Considering that this is rated at about 5,000 years BP and coming from Knossos on Crete, I suspect it may be more than just magic or religious writing. A lot of the cuneiform writing that we have from the area between the two rivers pertains to accounting and tax keeping records, could it also be something like that?
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15 sats \ 3 replies \ @TomK OP 16 Jan
Mmh. The form of a disc is unusual for the purpose of accounting. If You think of artefacts like the disc of Nebra there is this reference to the round form of our terrestric perception of the cosmos which suggests spiritiual connotation.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 16 Jan
OK, either one or the other or both together for the temple taxes. Always defaulting to a religious explanation is perhaps a faulty default. Yes, religion is important, but it does not explain everything going on around people all the time. There are alternative explanations that make a lot of sense, too. Especially if you consider that our history may have been grievously altered by the great alterers, you know, the liars. Just think of the different theories about the use of the pyramids, all over the world.
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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 16 Jan
Hopefully one day we'll know... I've been several times in Festos and in the museum in Herakleion - it's so wonderful, whatever it is
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 16 Jan
Yes, surviving 5,000 years is a wonderful feat, especially with all the turmoil between then and now.
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