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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 (as brooks make river), which strongly indicate, that the hieroglyphs represents something else than language, such as in the three examples right beneath:
- The 46 individual signs & The 22 stem-forms
- The 61 dissimilar elements
- The 50 stem-sign-groups on a string.
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 11˛ + 11˛. (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 10˛ + 12˛. As it
happens 244 is a multiple of 61, which is of statistical
significance, because the disc is divided into exactly 61 (5˛ +
6˛) 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 11˛
characters. 10˛ +( 11˛ )+ 12˛ = 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 exammple, 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 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 signss instead, makes an eight month calendar a reality
In any cryptanalytic
problem a single sure entry solves the problem (iv) :(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 presumed text. Also the disc contains as many as 53 different signgroups out of 61.
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 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 .
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 my view.
(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. 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 signggroups 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.
(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 .
(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 or Phaistos disk.. (ix). E.F.A.N.K Evidences for a non-linguistic key to the problem. (x).
" 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.
- 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.
