I suspect that the Phaistos disc should be read from the center out, the way a spider works constructing its net.

And I also suspect that the Phaistos disc has signs connected with constellations of stars, like a zodiac.

The calendar of the year is a very complex matter. We should think of 14-day-periods, 59-day-periods, the solar course of 365 1/4 days, the eqinoxes and the solstices, and we must also consider the stars.

The stellar time is more stable than the time we get from the moon or the sun. The Maya indians had calculated the moon's period to an incredible exactness and they must have used the stars for this purpose.

According to Coe the people of Copán had calculated that 149 moons were equal to 4400 days. This gives 29.53020 days for one moon which is only 33 seconds off our measurements in the modern western civilization.

But now we must return to Small Santiago Tablet.

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