Re: Phaistos disk

Atleast the game board idea is alot better than the standard it seems in
many athropology circles. Fat women, with large breast, must be
fertility goddess.

Why do they think this (the fertility goddess)? Maybe Freud or Jung
might have some ideas on this.

Heh, Anthropology, they can make whole species out of a few bones.
Fragments many times, and they say it is a new species. When they are
not even sure if the creature was not suffering from a genetic disorder
and the rest of the species did not look like her/him. Then there is the
old Neaderthal debate. Weirdness is that I have seen people in Alaska
(not me) who if you put them next to a Neanderthal and you likely could
not tell the difference..

So yes, nice that there is other options for a disk in a circular
fashion that is not religious artifact, but might be just a game board
or .. What else? A pray wheel of some sort, possible but to conventional
in thought. Seems to many anthro types, that ancient people were either
deeply into religion or into sex/fertility.. Games, possible. What else?
Sadly have nothing really new. Does the disk have a hole in the back or
like means, so you could turn in on the hole (stick), and enscribe on
it? Early prayer wheel? Or just lesson plan for an ancient long gone
culture?

The disk does challenge the normal way of writing things down in the
same way we do in the modern era, in western idels of left to right, up
to down.

Mike

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