Minoan Phaistos Disc - Prayer to the Goddess

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The disk can be read in a spiral direction from the outside rim to the inside. Using what previous studies have shown about Cretan hieroglyphics, and the scripts Minoan Linear A and Mycenaean Linear B from ancient Greece, the researcher was able to identify three key words:

• IQEKURJA, which may mean "pregnant mother" and/or "goddess."
• IQE, which may mean "mother" and/or "goddess" and which appears repeatedly on the disk.
• IQEPAJE or IQE-PHAE, which may mean "shining mother" or "goddess."

Owens concluded that the disk may contain a prayer to a Minoan goddess. "The goddess mother has been suspected for a century because of what we think we know about Minoan religion, but the point was to prove it linguistically." 

 

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