Phaistos Disk Solution 6 - Great Pyramid Interior

Phaistos Disk Cheops compared Cheops at Giza

Dots that form Great Pyramid, Interior, Phaistos Disk

Page 6 - CLAY POSTCARD #4 - GREAT PYRAMID INTERIOR

THE MINOANS EXPLORED INSIDE THE PYRAMID
AND WENT INTO THE SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBER

Connect the 10 matching "Fleece" signs to reveal the Great Pyramid Interior, 3D created by the spiral "background" of the Disk, compared with a 3D model of the Great Pyramid created with computer software. (below)

If you believe the Phaistos Disk - and I do - it seems the Great Pyramid, the only pyramid at Giza with an interior design, was as big a tourist attraction in the late Mediterranean Bronze Age as it is today, and why wouldn't it be? It was built in their ancient past. Completed no later than about 2560 BCE, it was already at least 1,000 years old when the Minoans toured it, and it had been opened and emptied by looters 500 years before the Phaistos Disk was created! Inside the Pyramid

Long abandoned as a tomb, or perhaps never intended as such, the pyramid might have been a source of income for the pharaohs. By 700 BCE, the pyramid was a well known tourist attraction complete with pyramid guides. The Phaistos Disk seems to roll that date back to at least 1600 BCE, the date the Disk was created and the same date given for the first construction of the 63 tombs in the Valley of the Kings for the pharaohs and nobles. Perhaps lucrative income from pyramid tourism financed part of the construction of the tombs and the vast treasures found therein.

Phaistos Disk, Great Pyramid, Interior

How did the Minoans have reliable, safe access to the Great Pyramid? This Egyptian mural portrays Minoans bringing gifts of jewelry, metal, vases, and other treasures, probably to the pharaoh, ca. 1600 BCE. Was the Minoan wealth so abundant that it overflowed their own civilization and greatly enriched the Egyptian world? Even so, they would still need some protection to travel openly into the remote vastness of Egypt, 2,600 years before Cairo was even built.

Phaistos Disk Pyramid, Interior

THE GODDESS BENEATH THE PYRAMID - ISIS/RHEA

Phaistos Disk pictograph, Nurse Connecting the 10 identical Golden Fleece signs on Side 1 reveals a second pyramid pictograph that appears to be the interior of the Great Pyramid. At the bottom of this pyramid we see, not the violence of Theseus battling the Minotaur as in the Maze of Daedalus but a depiction of love and caring, a woman nursing a baby, illumined by the door leading to the lower level. This might be a depiction of the Egyptian goddess Isis or it may be the Minoan version of this goddess, Rhea.

Greek Warriors banging their shields The Phaistos Disk image of Rhea (above left), and the one to the left, bears the influence of the Isis-Osiris mythology in which Isis, after the death of Osiris, feeds the baby Dictys with her finger while with the other hand she beats her breast in mourning. In Greek/Minoan mythology Great goddess Rhea surrounded her baby Zeus with Warriors beating their shields to drown the cries of the baby so his father Kronos (Time) wouldn't hear him and eat him, as he had all their other children.

title="Phaistos Phaistos Disk pictograph, Crested Dancer

Phaistos Disk pictographs might relate this ancient Minoan myth. This is the story of how the Curetes saved the god Zeus and became his chosen people. Rhea (left with baby on her lap) entrusted the care of her son to five immortal Curetes, also called Dactyls, meaning fingers (the glove). There are exactly five Dactyl pictographs on the Phaistos Disk.

Rhea hid the baby Zeus in a cave on Crete and then invented the Dance of the Labyrinth (Kronou Teknophagia or Crane Dance) to amuse Zeus and to protect him. She surrounded him with warriors banging their shields (the warriors and disk/shield pictograph). Zeus eventually overthrew his hungry father Kronos. Then, Rhea taught the Crane Dance to the Curetes (Cretans), who preserved the tradition and re-enacted the drama in the dance. In this Greek dance, in modern times as in ancient times, the dancers joined hands and one row danced in one direction while the inside row danced in another direction. This might be visualized by this animation of the disk when the warrior signs are connected by lines and the disk is set in motion.

The disk is spinning clockwise but the inside triangle appears to spin counterclockwise.

Phaistos Disk star This view of the goddess seems to support the idea that Minoans were at the pyramid to view the goddess, the big star Sirius (right), conceived to be the Goddess Isis-Sothis. My excavation of two pyramids on this disk, one an exterior view and the other an interior view, makes me wonder if there is another pyramid to find, perhaps a view from the top, a prime location to view the goddess. It also encourages me to conclude that the Minoan astronomers and tourists had personal knowledge of the interior of the pyramid, where they went down into the subterranean chamber. Wonder what they did down there, goddess worship?

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