31	32	33	34	35	36	37
female				battle axe	sack	low sky
... One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish ... ... It must be admitted, however, that the task of raising the sky was not always a long and arduous one. In the New Hebrides of Melanesia the sky was formerly so low overhead that a woman who was pounding roots in a mortar happened to strike the sky with her pestle. Greatly annoyed at the interruption she looked up and cried angrily, 'Go on up higher!' Whereat the sky meekly obeyed her. What actually happened probably was that the woman struck the low house roof with her pestle and cried angrily to her husband, 'If you don't raise that roof higher, I won't cook you another meal!' thus giving a strong impuls to the development of the science of architecture ...

... Whatever may have been the reason for the preëminence of the Pleiades cluster - and it was probably a combination of several reasons - it is certain that when men became increasingly alert ot the annual cycles of celestial phenomena, the changing altitudes and azimuths of the Sun, the lengthening and shortening of days and the corresponding variation in temperature, the slow march of the constellations across the sky, and realized the need of choosing a day on which to begin the yearly cycle of the calendar, they turned to the Pleiades for guidance.

Undoubtedly the Polynesians carried the Pleiades year with them into the Pacific from the ancient homeland ... With but few exceptions they continued to date the annual cycle from the rising of these stars until modern times. In the Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Society, Marquesan, and some other islands the new year began in late November or early December with the first new Moon after the first appearance of the Pleiades in the eastern sky in the evening twilight.

Notable exceptions to the general rule are found in Pukapuka and among certain tribes of New Zealand where the new year was inaugurated by the first new Moon after the Pleiades appeared on the eastern horizon just before sunrise in June. Traces of an ancient year beginning in May have been noted in the Society Islands, but there is some uncertainty about the beginning of the year in native annals generally, at least as reported by missionaries and others, due perhaps to the desire to make the Polynesian months coincide with the stated months of the modern calendar ...

The ancient year was usually divided in two parts as defined from the Pleiades:

Nika. 'Savage tribes knew the Pleiades familiarly, as well as did the people of ancient and modern civilization; and Ellis wrote of the natives of the Society and Tonga Islands, who called these stars Matarii, the Little Eyes: The two seasons of the year were divided by the Pleiades; the first, Matarii i nia, the Pleiades Above, commenced when, in the evening, those stars appeared on the horizon, and continued while, after sunset, they were above. The other season, Matarii i raro, the Pleiades Below, began when, at sunset, they ceased to be visible, and continued till, in the evening, they appeared again above the horizon. Gill gives a similar story from the Hervey group, where the Little Eyes are Matariki, and at one time but a single star, so bright that their god Tane in envy got hold of Aumea, our Aldebaran, and, accompanied by Mere, our Sirius, chased the offender, who took refuge in a stream. Mere, however, drained off the water, and Tane hurled Aumea at the fugitive, breaking him into the six pieces that we now see, whence the native name for the fragments, Tauono, the Six, quoted by Flammarion as Tau, both titles singularly like the Latin Taurus. They were the favorite one of the various avelas, or guides at sea in night voyages from one island to another; and, as opening the year, objects of worship down to 1857, when Christianity prevailed throughout these islands.' (Allen)

The idea of the Pleiades visible above could be the reason for why my Phaistos type number 2 is conspiciously located above my type number 9 at a special place on the disc, viz. at position number 11 ('one more') on the top (above) side:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
3	2	7	3	3	4	3	4	7	4
3	5	12	15	18	22	25	29	36	40
1	4	13	1	12²	4	2	20	8	11
9¹	25	14	9¹	20	25	11	?³	18	5
22		12	22	10	2	5	18	6	2
		8			9		3	21	9
		8						8
		2						2
		9						9

11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
2	6	4	2	7	4	2	6	2	5
42	48	52	54	61	65	67	73	75	80
4	18	11	10	13	11³	4	18	24	1
10¹	10	5²	7	14	5	10¹	10	23	10
	22	2		12	2		22		6
	27	9		8	9		27		2
	8			8			8		9
	9			2			9
				9

A quick look at the bottom of the Phaistos disc then reveals how type number 2 is to be found only in two places:

This indicates for me that the bottom of the Phaistos disc could have illustrated Matariki i raro in contrast to Matariki i nika for the top surface. As a kind of confirmation we can see the binome constituted by 2 and 31 in department 26 on the bottom side:

When the Pleiades were below (i raro) it meant they were invisible due to their location below the horizon (i.e. they were inside Mother Earth, Pacha-mama, so to say).