Re: The Infamous Disk... [Phaistos]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:

> I'm reading a rather interesting book by Steven Roger Fischer,

telling

> about how he cracked the code of the Phaistos Disk in 1984,

revealing

> it to be an Eastern dialect of Greek (albeit ANCIENT), and how he
> decoded Rongo-Rongo, the written language on Easter Island. I

checked,

> and it's a real language, strangely enough.
>
> The reconstructed meaning is a call to war against the Carians (the
> native, non-PIE Greeks, I think), calling Cretans, Greeks, Libians,
> Idaians, and people of Punt (the land between Libya and Egypt) to

come

> to Nax[os], and "deliver me of my great afflictions" ("E me te-mo-

si|

> ma pi-mo-ne| pa-si." - "E:, me temosai ma pi:mone pa:sis."
> (extrapolated in forms "closer to the classical Greek)
>
> If you want, I can put up the decoding, the expanded version and
> English translation of the expanded version. But does this seem

hoax-like?

>
> Has anyone read his 1988 writing "Evidence for Hellenic Dialect in

the

> Phaistos Disk?"

There still is that Mr Faucounau. Some of his views have been
discussed here before and there are some ictures in the archives of
this forum.