Barry Fell published a translation, excerpted below, each side of the disk in a separate paragraph. His conclusion was that the text of the Phaistos Disk represented a language related to Hittite (Neshili or Khattili?), as was the Linear A texts. [Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications, Volume 4, No. 79, September 1976]The omens that you seek are explained in this tablet, every one. The omens that are sent forth for man's destiny, every one. Whatever you may ask, great or small, if you are worried, is given (an answer), every one. Seek an omen by offering a sacrifice to the birds, that the Gods may be well disposed. Ask anything you wish, on this tablet is explained everything. You may ask anything by sacrificing an offering to the birds, that the Gods may from Heaven send forth an omen; everything is (answered) above the earth, deceiving never, everything. And so men may ask for protection, everyone. Should they (the Gods) be angered by something, or by the sacrifice, ill omens are released, all of them, signifying death or disaster; which appear upon asking, all of them.(reverse side follows)Let a substitute sacrifice be exposed, designated as an offering to take the place of the man. If birds are attracted then, it is a lucky sign. Should the birds remain hidden, it stands for death, and the man will die. Should they approach to peck at the sacrifice, it is a lucky sign. If they continue to feed and crowd in, it is lucky and moreover a sign of great favor (or, that the sacrifice is favored), and the man may go and pour a libation for his success. The kid satisfied and was pleasing to the high gods. To the priest, for averting death and danger, a recompense is to be paid, and a measure for bird-seed for good fortune. The measure scattered for the birds is to be wheat which has been coarsely milled, and is to be scattered abroad by the man's own hands, or he may die. Perform all these things as the tablet instructs."
And I bet they charged a pretty penny to anyone who wanted to use the tablet.
“Drink your ...”
Slip the holy guy a little something extra and he'll make sure your sacrifice is laced with plenty of birdseed.
So... it’s a BIRD FEEDER! Don’t they have copies of these for sale in the SkyMall magazine already?
A Magic 8 Ball, a Ouiji Board, and Tippi Hedren walk into a bar...
Well, since this is dated to about 2000 BC to 1400 BC in Crete, it may well be recording about Aphrodite. Isn’t Aphrodite/Venus a pre-Aryanic goddess? Most likely brought by the Phoenicians/Canaanites as the Semitic Astarte to Cyprus
But on a related note, I read recently that the Pheonicians are stated by Herodotus to have originated in BAhrain -- I find that fascinating