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11-2. On the Phaistos disc we have tried to count ahead from the end of its top side by following the glyph text down onto the bottom side in the natural way, i.e. after having gone down from the top to the perimeter on the top side the trail should then go up again from the perimeter to the the top on the bottom side.

61 17 54
18 21 11¹
knee balance upset

¹ This glyph could be a variant of number 11. On the other hand, if it is intended to be an example of my glyph type 11, then it is depicted upside down.

62 63 64
180 123 + 56 = 179 178
April 10 (100) 9 (179 - 80) 8 (408 + 55 - 365 = 98)
KSORA (*20) ADHIL (*19) *328 + *55 = *383 = *18
71 VIRGINIS (*203) SPICA (*202) Oct 8 (98 + 183)
'March 14 (73) 13 12
"Febr 28 (59) 27 26
FEBR 5 (36) 4 3
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As perceived from the center (top) of the bottom side this seems to imply there remained 61 days from April 10 (100) up to June 10 (161 → 354 / 2 - 16):

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

June 10 (*502) *100 Sept 18 (261) *60 Nov 17 (321)
NIHAL (*81) π Virginis π Scorpii
April 10

*20

*185

Oct 12

*205

*120

Febr 9

*325

"Febr 28 (59)

"Sept 1 (244)

"Dec 30 (364)

KSORA (*20)

'305 → *160 + *145

Such a perspective could somehow have been implanted in the mind of Metoro:

...  For some reasons Metoro read the lines on side b backwards, starting with Eb1-36, -35, 34 ...  and ending this line with Eb1-3, -2, -1. Though Eb1-37 -- -42 were left until after having read the mentioned glyphs and Eb2-27, -26, -25 ... -3, -2, -1 (in that order). Then he finished line Eb1 in the (presumably) right order: Eb1-37 -- -42. The close correlations between what Metoro was saying and the glyphs makes it absolutely clear that this is what happened. I have presumed that Metoro was wrong in reading backwards like that and therefore I present glyphs and Metoro's readings adjusted after the order of the glyphs, not according to the order of his reading ...

Eb1-36

34

Eb1-1

Eb2-27

25

Eb2-1

36 + 27 = 63

Nov 5 (*229)

6

7

8

9 → 108

10 (314)

11 (*235)

Eb1-30

Eb1-31

Eb1-32

326 + 33

Eb1-34 (360)

Eb1-35

Eb1-36

ka tu i te toga te manu - hua te vaero  tagata puoko kore oho hukiga - te rima vanaga hia hare pure i te rima Kua vare
37 2 9 28 12 9
107 108 109 110 123
*312 *313 *314 π - 3.14 *328
Jan 27 (392) 16
July 29 (210)
Ea8-4 (260) no glyph ki te vai (te hupee)   NASHIRA

Vare. Spittle, drivel, any viscous liquid; viscous; vare māmari, egg white; pipi-vare, slug. Vanaga. Varevare, steep, rugged. Tu.: vare, to lose consciousness. Barthel 2. 1. Hakavare, to crisp, to plaster; hakavarevare, to level. 2. Driveler. P Mgv.: vare, clumsy, inept. Turivare, abscess at the knee. Varegao, to speak indistinctly, to offend, to pretend. Varevare: 1. Steep, rugged. 2. Smooth, plain, without rocks; horo varevare, without branches; tino varevare, slender; kona varevare, open place, court, market place. PS Sa.: valevale, fat. To.: valevale, young, tender, applied to babies. In Nuclear Polynesia it is difficult to dissociate this vale from the vale conveying the sense of ignorance. In Samoa this varevare appears only as applied, lē valevale, to a hog that is not fat. It is probable that varevare 2 preserves the Proto-Samoan primitive and that the sense-invert, in the preceding item, is directed away from the germ-sense. Churchill. ... And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator ...

Vanaga. To speak, to talk, to pronounce; conversation, talk, word, language; he vānaga i te vānaga rapanui, to speak Rapanui; vānaga reoreo, lies, lying words, falsehoods. Vanavanaga, to talk at length; useless talk. Vanaga. To speak, to say, to chat, to discourse, to address, to recount, to reply, to divulge, to spread a rumor; argument, conversation, formula, harangue, idiom, locution, verb, word, recital, response, speech; vanaga roroa, chatterbox, babbler; rava vanaga, candid, babbler; tae vanaga, discreet; tai vanaga, ripple; vanagarua (vanaga - rua 1), echo. P Pau.: vanaga, to warn by advice. Mgv.: vanaga, orator, noise, hubbub, tumult. Mq.: vanaa, orator, discourse, counsel, advice. Churchill.

ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)

Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)
μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3), ο Librae (231.8)

ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD (The Dim One of the Two Calves) = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9)

*191.0 = *232.4 - 41.4
ALKALUROPS (The Herdsman's Lance) = μ Bootis (233.1), ED ASICH (Male Hyena) = ι Draconis (233.2) NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), GEMMA = α Cor. Bor., ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)

SIRRAH (α Andromedae)
ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7) ZIBAL (Young Ostriches) = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9) τ Arietis (49.7)

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)
σ Persei (51.6) No star listed (52)

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

Oct 7 (280 = 40 weeks) 8 9 (282 → 2 * 141)
Eb1-1 Eb1-2 Eb1-3
tagata mau kupega te henua te maitaki

Kupega. He-tį i te kupega, to weave (a net). Hopu kupega, those who help the motuha o te hopu kupega in handling the fishing nets. Huki kupega, pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended. Mata kupega, mesh.  Te matu'a o te kupega, part of a net from which the weaving started. Te puapua kupega, the upper part of a fishing net.  Tau kupega, rope from which is hung the oval net used in ature fishing. Tuku kupega, a fishing technique: two men drag along the top of a fishing net doubled up, spread out on the bottom of a small cove, trapping the fish into the net. Vanaga.

Maitaki. Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice, beautiful, handsome; tagata rima maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man. Vanaga. 1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the shining moon. Barthel. Ce qui est bon. Jaussen according to Barthel. Meitaki, good, agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant, pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki, handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve; meitaki ke, marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki, beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good, agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki, good, well. Niuē: mitaki, good. Maitakia, clean. Churchill.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4

Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-19 (Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)

MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR (The Fox) = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7)

SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)

*159.0 + *182.0 = 341.0
No star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)
April 7 (107 = 280 - 183) 8 (108) 9 (109)
FEBR 2 (365 + 33 = 408) 3 4 (45 = 109 - 64)

Ending his strange withershins reading where the Sun reached day 109 and with nakshatra Full Moon ideally at Spica should now seem quite natural for us.

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

According to the Chinese Spica ruled the first of their lunar stations, and number 109 was similar to the thread of Ariadne which lead us to a perceived correspondence between the Phaistos disc and the E text:

37 2 9 28 12 9
107 108 109 110 123
*312 *313 *314 π - 3.14 *328
Jan 27 (392) 16
July 29 (210)
Ea8-4 (260) no glyph (9 * 29) ki te vai (te hupee)   NASHIRA

Moving across the border from one hemisphere to the other was definitely a hazardous quest.

... Dante kept to the tradition of the whirlpool as a significant end for great figures, even if here it comes ordained by Providence. Ulysses has sailed in his 'mad venture' beyond the limits of the world, and once he has crossed the ocean he sees a mountain looming far away, 'hazy with the distance, and so high I had never seen any.' It is the Mount of Purgatory, forbidden to mortals. 'We rejoiced, and soon it turned to tears, for from the new land a whirl was born, which smote our ship from the side. Three times it caused it to revolve with all the waters, on the forth to lift is stern on high, and the prow to go down, as Someone willed, until the sea had closed over us.' The 'many thoughted' Ulysses is on his way to immortality, even if it has to be Hell. The engulfing whirlpool belongs to the stock-in-trade of ancient fable. It appears in the Odyssey as Charybdis in the straits of Messina - and again, in other cultures, in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific. It is found there too, curiously enough, with the overhanging fig tree to whose boughs the hero can cling as the ship goes down, whether it be Satyavrata in India, or Kae in Tonga ...