Claire: There are many more cosmic signs on the disk, most notably the picture-perfect constellation Argo. To excavate the constellation, connect the 15 Star/Pomegranate pictographs. The Argo completes the holy trinity of early astronomy - Sirius, Argo Navis, the Pleiades, and all of them appear to be on the Phaistos Disk.

The star pictograph resembles pomegranates, the ancient symbol for star. This pomegranate/star pictograph, in association with the Horai (above), might be a reference to timekeeping as well.

Modern map of the constellation Argo (right) compared with the Phaistos Disk Argo (left).

Constellation Argo with mooring and oars
on the Phaistos Disk - Minoa's Ark?

Excavating the Argo on the Phaistos Disk suggests this pictograph to be the Golden Fleece, so perhaps Jason and the Argonauts of mythology went searching for it beneath the pyramid.

Is the Argo on the Phaistos Disk drawn backwards? More accurate to say, the Argo has been drawn backyards since about 200 BCE or so. The Phaistos Disk Argo shows how the Minoan's drew the original constellation, so the modern constellation has been wrong for at least 2,300 years. Wonder how that could have happened!? Maybe we owe this reversal to Aratos (310-245 BCE), a Greek court philosopher and astronomer who famously wrote (or rather, infamously as it turns out):

"Sternforward Argo by the Great Dog's tail
Is drawn; for hers is not a usual course,
But backward turned she comes, as vessels do
When sailors have transposed the crooked stern
On entering harbour; all the ship reverse,
And gliding backward on the beach it grounds.
Sternforward thus is Jason's Argo drawn.

The Sunflower pictograph at the center of Side 1 on the Phaistos Disk may indicate influences of Egyptian theology on Minoan ideas. An identical flower pictograph is seen on this fragment of an Egyptian limestone relief. This Flower of Life is protected by the goddess Mut, a vulture-version of the goddess Isis, whose image Egyptians placed in tombs to protect the dead in their embryonic state of re-birth into the afterlife. Above Mut are the stars representing Sirius.