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

Hi, Nick,

Nick Pelling wrote:

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.

<snip>

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?

I presume you aren't being too serious here. ;-)

Frogguy's article is quite apposite:

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/phaistos/index.html

and for entertainment value, by all means don't miss

http://users.otenet.gr/~svoronan/phaistos.htm

and if you don't find even that sufficiently amusing... well, if Old Estonian, why not Basque?

http://www.islandnet.com/~edonon/linguist.htm

... and you can't beat *that* for entertainment!

;-)
Dennis

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