The Phaistos disc-alias the Minoan calendar

by Ole Hagen


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 08/02/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 116
ISBN : 9780759611320

About the Book

This epigraphic document is a thorough and sober structural and functional analysis of the Phaistos-disc inscription.  It is based primarily on a combination of the characters in its 61 signgroups (the same principle as in pictorial lottery), and quickly shows a highly significant statistical outcome.

My analysis is sufficient to reveal the inscription to be a coherent, ideographic system inside the framework of an accurate ancient calendar.

Henceforth the subject should no longer be taken as suspect.


About the Author

Contrary to my deciphering of the Phaistos disc inscription, my biographical data is not particularly exciting.  I was born in Jaegersborg near Copenhagen, the capitol of Denmark.  My father was a surgeon.  As a child, I was preoccupied by drawing.  Some years after ending school, I decided to be a painter and luckily, I got admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Ǻrhus in 1971.

Later, in the seventies, I traveled a lot in the rest of Europe to experience all the famous art collections.  Under a sojourn in Crete in 1978, I visited the Heraklion Museum, which is where the Phaistos disc is stored, and soon decided to devote myself to the deciphering of this inscription. 

Back in Denmark, I took a year of high school, and then afterwards, I finally started my research on the topic.  Eventually, in 1984, I felt convinced that I did possess the solution key for the inscription in the shape of the 22 stemforms.  I then approached Roskilde University Center (RUC) in 1985, who agreed in publishing my discovery, but on account of the pressure of work, my pre-print “Phaistos-skiven, en strukturanalyse” was first issued in 1988 (included in the Scandanavian Selection on Harvard College Library, 1988).

It shall be no secret that I’ve tried to have my deciphering published by the dozens of publishing houses worldwide since 1988, but I first became successful now, thanks to 1stBooks.