VMs: Link between Phaistos Disk & VMs...!?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Having recently had a look at the Phaistos Disk while in Crete, I bought 
Thomas Balistier's "The Phaistos Disk - An Account of its Unsolved 
Mystery". Not a bad little read: in VMs terms, it would be along the same 
lines as D'Imperio, I guess. Anyway, on p.78 at the end of Chapter 7, 
Balistier remarks:

        In closing, I would note that the attempts to interpret
        the inscription as West Finnish or Old Estonian (Gleye
        1912) or as Indian (Sankarananda) should be taken less
        seriously.

I suppose I was most struck by the reference to Arthur Wilhelm Gleye's 
47-page "Kretische Studien. Die westfinnische Inschrift auf dem Diskus von 
Phaestos". Tomsk, 1912. Though the BL does have a copy (07704.h.24), it'll 
unfortunately probably be a little while before I get to see it for myself.

Incidentally, there's more about Arthur Gleye and other Fennomaniacs (most 
notably Sigurd Wettenhovi-Aspa - as Private Eye used to say, "crazy name, 
crazy guy") in Google's cache: the short version is that, somehow inspired 
by (yet opposed to) Strindberg, a loosely-connected group tried (around 
1910-1920) to demonstrate that all culture sprang ultimately from 
Finno-Ugric - even the Phaistos Disk. Logically, if everything did, it 
would too, wouldn't it?
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:HpMbGsHSoFkJ:www.egyptsearch.com/forums/Forum8/HTML/001686.html 


BTW, the original article from which the above was taken (stolen? 
appropriated? quoted?) is here:-
        http://www.uta.fi/~hipema/savants.htm

Though it's stretching the point to claim there's any kind of link with the 
VMs here, I just like the symmetry between John Stojko's Old Ukrainian VMs 
and Arthur Gleye's Old Estonian Phaistos Disk - and that's good enough for 
me. :-)  BTW, does anyone know what Gleye thought the PD said?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

PS: I should perhaps admit that I keep accidentally reading Gleye's claim 
as "Old Etonian" - what might an Old Etonian Phaistos Disk say? Perhaps... 
"if you don't cap a popper, it's an automatic rip... helmet disk helmet 
disk (etc)"? 


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