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This book takes a fresh look at the Minoan Abacus and the Phaistos Disk, and presents recent discoveries about the two Minoan calendars. One of these was for use by priests, for religious ceremonies, while the other was meant for the navy. This suggests elements of a very advanced, almost modern, civilization. Another subject treated in this context is the role the Minoan Labyrinth plays, being the oldest map of the sky. Here, basic models and prototypes are developed from material from such diverse sources as the Orphic texts, Homeric Epics, and Pythagoras and his followers, as well as Plato, Aristotle and others. The interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scientists interested in ancient astronomy, calendars, science and technology.
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Provisional Table of Contents, June 2010
PART I: THE FOUR PROTOTYPES; 1. THE ATLANTIS NAME; 2. THE ATLANTIS MODEL; 3. THE "PYTHAGOREAN" TETRAKTYS (ATLANTIS MODEL) IN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND CIVILIZATIONS; 4. TRITTYS; 4A. THE "BIG" TETRAKTYS; 5. THE MINOAN LABYRINTH: THE FOUND SYMBOL; 6. THE RHOMBUS; 7. THE MYSTERY OF "ATLANTIS; 8. THE DESTRUCTION OF "ATLANTIS": THE LOST SYMBOL; 9. LABYRINTH: THE SEVEN (7) DAYS CALENDAR AND THE UNIVERSAL CARTOGRAPHY; 10. LINEAR A' - B' AND THE MINOAN HIEROGLYPHICS; 11. THE MODERN THEORIES; 12. THE TETRAKTYS MODEL IN THE SCIENCE OF PHYSICS; 12A. PYTHAGOREAN AND PLATO'S TEXTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSICAL HARMONY; 12B. THE INFINITY IS INCLUDED INTO THE FIBONACCI NUMBERS; 12C. THEORY OF RELATIVITY BY ALBERT EINSTEIN; 12D. THE DOUBLE HELIX OF DNA BY JAMES WATSON (1968); 12E. THE SUPER NANO-BATTERIES OF THE M.I.T.; 13. THE UNIVERSAL AND COSMOLOGICAL PROTOTYPES IN THE HIERATIC ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING OF TEMPLES AND MAPS; PART II: THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME AND THE TWO MINOAN CALENDARS; THE MINOAN CALENDRICAL ABACUS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1A. THE MINOAN CALENDAR AND ITS FUNCTION ; 1B. THE FUNCTION OF THE ABACUS; 1C. CONCLUSIONS; 2. THE CREATION OF THE DISK; 2A. THE SIDES OF THE DISK; THE PHAISTOS' DISK SIGNS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE TWO SIDES WITH A SERIES OF "HIEROGLYPHIC" SIGNS; 3. CONCLUSIONS; 4. APPENDIX; 4A. THE ACCURACY OF THE DISK CALENDAR; 4B. THE INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE MINOAN CALENDRICAL ABACUS AND THE PHAISTOS DISK; DECODING THE ROSETTE'S SIGN; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE MINOAN CALENDRICAL ABACUS AND THE BASIC TIME UNIT OF 20 MINUTES ; 3. THE ROSETTE AS A BASIC UNIT AND SYMBOL OF TIME IN EGYPT; 4. THE ROSETTE SYMBOL IN THE MACEDONIAN TOMBS; 5. THE MINOAN BASIC METRIC UNITS; 5A. THE WORKING STANDARDIZATION; 6. "ENEOROS MINOS"; PART III: THE COMMON ORIGIN OF THE WRITINGS; 1. THE GREEK ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET; A. PRE-ALPHABETICAL ELEMENTS OF GREEK WRITINGS; B. THE UNIQUENESS AND THE GREEK ORIGINS OF THE ALPHABET; C. THE BIRTH OF THE ALPHABET AND THE INVENTION OF THE NUMERALS; 2. THE LATIN ALPHABET; 3. THE CHINESE WRITING AND THE MINOAN ABACUS ; 3A. THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PLANET IN THE MYTHICAL TIMES; 3B. THE MINOAN GLOBALIZATION; 3C. THE MINOAN MAPS; 3D. THE MINOANS IN CHINA ; 4. THE CHINESE CALENDRICAL ABACUS LIU PO, AN ANNUAL CALENDAR; 5. THE CHINESE WRITING; 5A. THE STRUCTURE OF THE IDEOGRAMS; 5B. THE GREEK CAPITAL LETTERS "¿" (PI) AND "¿" (SI); 5C. ANALOGIES OF MCA PARTS WITH IDEOGRAMS, MEASURES AND NUMBERS; 6. THE EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING; 6A. THE TRITTYS, TETRAKTYS AND THE LABYRINTHIC PROTOTYPES; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PRE-MINOAN CARTOGRAPHY AND "MYTHOLOGY"; 3. THE "PYTHAGOREAN" TETRAKTYS (ATLANTIS MODEL) IN THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WORLD AND CIVILIZATIONS; 4. THE LABYRINTH IN THE EGYPTIAN WRITING; 5. THE MINOAN LABYRINTH DECODES THE EGYPTIAN RELIGION; 6. THE UNIVERSAL MODEL IN EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE; 7. THE "HEART" OF THE LABYRINTH IN THE EGYPTIAN RELIGION; 8. CONCLUSION; EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; BIOGRAPHY
