Re: Epimenidis

From: grapheus (grapheus_at_www.com)
Date: 06/18/03 

Date: 18 Jun 2003 00:02:50 -0700

jsavard@ecn.ab.ca () wrote in message news:<_CKHa.670$6u1.51981@localhost>...
> Hagen (hagen@gvdnet.dk) wrote:
>
> : After having recognized the prototype for a calendar in the P.D.
> : inscription,
>
> : The continuation of the unravelling of the details in
> : the inscription is no longer a task for a single person (me), but is,
> : through my publication, left over to the hundreds (or thousands) of
> : bright heads, who share my interest for this exciting piece of
> : epigraphy from Crete. - The craddle of Europe - .
>
> I take it you're referring to the Phaistos Disk.
>
> John Savard

Yes, he does.
The problem for Ole Hagen is that this document has been already
deciphered in a definite way because more than 30 pieces of EVIDENCE
confirming the decipherment have been presented. Most of these pieces
of evidence are "exterior" to the Disk, coming from other documents :
e.g. what has been called the "Linguistical Proofs" or the
"Astronomical proof". Other kind of evidence is also the linguistical
coherence of the decipherment or the explanation of ALL the
epigraphical facts : For instance, why the signs are crowded in the
case A29, but not in the adjacent cases (A28 and A30 and A31).
Unfortunately for Ole Hagen, this decipherment shows that the Disk is
NOT a "Minoan Calendar" (It is neither Minoan, nor a calendar)., but a
MORTUARY PSALM, composed on the spot by the scribe who printed the
Disk. This decipherment, known as "the Proto-Ionian Solution", has
been developed in two books and several papers in French (One may
easily get the books in an e-bookshop, for instance :
<http://www.alapage.com> , but they don't talk very much about the
deciphering method). In English, there are only a few links which can
just give a faint idea of the decipherment . For instance :
<http://users.hol.gr/~ianlos/v002.htm>
<http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/phaistos/>
Why Ole Hagen, in spite of this, still believe in his implausible
calendar ( Why the scribe would have "forced" a "quadratic calendar"
into a spiralic one ????) really surprises me !..
As for the manifold other "decipherments", Ole Hagen is right : none
is correct, and none has ever been PROVED by a single piece of
evidence !..

Regards
grapheus

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