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Foreword: About this book
Solomon's Sky
by Peter Aleff
The Religious Board Game on the Phaistos Disk
Chapters 1 - 6: Its ancient Egyptian siblings
Snake Game
and
Senet,
its direct
descendant the still popular spiral Game of
the Goose,
and the striking
similarities of its "Philistine sun head"
path of fields
with the much later
life, death, and third-day resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
Chapters 7 - 12:
The astronomical and
calendrical cycles on its path,
its role as a sky chart and labyrinth
mandala of heaven,
its similarities with the layout of King
Solomon’s Temple precinct,
and its later evolution into chess and beyond.
Scroll 1
1. Introduction
to the riddle
1.1. The find and its features
1.2. The Disk compared with writing tablets
1.3. Attempts to decipher the Disk as writing
Scroll 011 Photos of
the Phaistos Disk
Scroll 012 Photos of
the Phaistos Palace
Scroll 2
1.3.1.
Appendix 1: A sampling of Disk translations
Scroll 3
1.4. A new perspective on the Disk
2. The Disk and ancient gameboards
2.1. Stamped decorations on gameboards
2.2. Eight-leaved rosettes on gameboards
Scroll 4
2.2.1. The symbolism of the eight-fold rosettes
2.2.2. Heavenly matches for the eight leaves
2.2.3. The rosette fields on the Disk
Scroll 5
2.2.1.1.
Appendix 2: Some rosettes in context
Scroll 6
2.3. Similarities with other gameboard tracks
2.3.1. Links betweeen ancient Crete and India
2.3.2. Indian games on square boards
2.4. Shapes and sizes of gameboards
Scroll 7
3. Heads on
the Disk, bristled and bald
3.1. The sun-rayed head and Samson
3.1.1. Hair as life-force of sun-heads
Scroll 8
3.1.2. The Philistine connection with the Disk
Scroll 9
3.1.3. The Old Philistine "Fluted Crown"
3.2. Bald head as death of the rayed one
Scroll 10
4. The game of Senet as key to the Disk
4.1. Ties between ancient Crete and Egypt
4.2. Sources about Senet
Scroll 101 Photo of Knossos bull leaper fresco
Scroll 11
4.3. Senet magic for enduring
Scroll 111 Photo of Karnak Heb-Sed hall
Scroll 12
4.4. Gameboards as time-tracking tools
4.5. Senet's evolution into Backgammon
Scroll 13
4.6. Marks on the last five Senet squares
4.6.1. Gamepieces' journey through death
Scroll 14
5. Parallels
in Senet and Phaistos Disk
5.1. The direction of the path on the Disk
5.2. Meetings of sun and moon
5.2.1. The 25-year Egyptian cycle in Senet
5.2.1.1. The Apis bull as fake pharaoh
5.2.1.2. The renewal of the real pharaoh
Scroll 141 Drawings of the Phaistos Disk
Scroll 15
5.2.2. The 19-year "Metonic" cycle on the Disk
5.2.2.1. Sun and moon on the bald head's cheek
5.2.2.2. The two circles as time limit for the sun
Scroll 16
5.3. The "Command" for "Life" to go "Down"
5.4. Phaistos field of distress after death
Scroll 17
5.4.1. A sound and word from the "T-shirt" sign
5.4.2. Tartarus as "west-west"
5.4.3. The sun travels west in a boat
Scroll 18
5.4.4. Halls of gloom
5.4.4.1. The shape of the maze after death
Scroll 19
5.4.5. The glimpse of hope
Scroll 20
5.5. Mid-life renewals in Senet and on the Disk
5.5.1. The Heb-Sed festival of pharaonic renewal
Scroll 201 Photos of Memnon and Djoser precinct
Scroll 21
5.5.2. Initiations in Crete
Scroll 211 Photos from Knossos Palace
Scroll 22
6. Parallels with the Game of the Snake and Goose
6.1. The ancient spiral Snake Game
6.1.1. The functions of the Mehen snake
6.1.1.1. Encircling magic
Scroll 23
6.1.1.2. Symbolism of spirals
6.1.1.3. The snake as linear and cyclical time
Scroll 24
6.1.2. Holy Geese in ancient Egypt
6.1.2.1. The cosmic goose as creator and divine emblem
6.1.2.2. Goose and snake as earth god
Scroll 25
6.1.2.3. The goose as sky goddess
6.1.2.4. The goose allied with the snake
6.1.2.5. Geese as gifts to the gods
6.1.2.6. The bull heads buried with the goose heads
Scroll 251 Photos from Isis Temple in Aswan
Scroll 252 Photos from Amun Temple in Luxor
Scroll 26
6.1.2.7. Goose heads in temple foundations
6.1.2.8. Geese as substitute sacrifices
6.1.2.9. Geese as sons
6.1.2.10. Ganders in India
6.1.2.11. Geese in ancient Crete
Scroll 27
6.1.2.12. Geese among the Philistines
6.1.2.13. Geese in Greece
6.1.3. The marks and fields along the Mehen track
Scroll 28
6.2. The modern spiral Goose Game
6.2.1. Continued links from Goose to Snake and time
6.2.2. The special fields in the Goose Game
Scroll 281 Pictures of two Goose gameboards
Scroll 29
6.3. Matches of Goose fields on the Disk
6.3.1. The “death” field in 58
6.3.2. Rebirth at the end
6.3.3. The mid-life “well” of renewal in 31
6.3.4. The “prison” in 52
Scroll 30
6.3.5. The setbacks by twelve fields from the “mazes”
Scroll 31
6.3.6. The geese and “flock of geese” arrows
Scroll 32
6.4. The game and rhymes of Mother Goose
Scroll 33
6.5. The Goose’s travel through time
6.5.1. The sacred way to the Eleusinian Mysteries
6.5.1.1. Sitting on the cover of a well
6.5.1.2. A bridge on day and field six
Scroll 34
6.5.2. Changes from Phaistos to Goose
6.5.2.1. Different perceptions of death
6.5.2.2. The relocation of the afterworld maze
6.5.2.3. The relocation of some geese
Scroll 341 Photos of Easter ceremony and Sepulcher
Scroll 35
6.5.3. A guess about the journey of the Goose
6.5.3.1. From Athens to Italy
6.5.3.2. The Goose Game as Calvary path
Scroll 351 Photos of the Via Dolorosa
Scroll 36
6.6. A “Life of Christ” from 1600 before Christ
6.6.1. The “world circle” with the world ruler
Scroll 37
6.6.2. Teaching divine law at age twelve
Scroll 38
6.6.3. Initiation with dove at 31
6.6.3.1. Doves as symbol of the renewal goddess
Scroll 39
6.6.3.2. Doves sitting on double axes
Scroll 40
6.6.4. Twelve disciples and some of their deeds
6.6.4.1. Judas fallen in Tartarus
6.6.4.2. The fisherman with sword and divine law
Scroll 401 Photos about Judas' Betrayal
Scroll 41
6.6.5. Nineteen- year careers
6.6.6. Resurrection on the third day
6.6.7. The child from heaven
6.6.7.1. Lily regeneration
Scroll 42
6.6.7.2. Return of the lily-soul from death
Scroll 43
6.7. The value of the record on the Phaistos Disk
7. The Flow of Time on
the Gameboard Track
7.1. The monthly race of the moon’s light side
against its dark part
7.1.1. The “cat head” as the visible part of the moon
7.1.2. The “rounded shield” as the darkness on and around the moon
7.1.3. A victory wreath for the winner in the race
7.1.4. The “bee keeper glove” for the celestial keeper of souls
7.1.5. Some other fields in the 30-day race
7.1.6. The markers between the “seasons” of the moon
7.2. The measurer of time and
some cycles he shows with his stride
7.2.1. Five birthdays of gods and the beginning of time
7.2.1.1. Osiris
7.2.1.2. Horus
7.2.1.3. Seth
7.2.1.4. Isis
7.2.1.5. Nephthys
7.2 2. The thunder axe that broke frozen skies and freed
life
7.2.3. A five-day coronation before the births of sun and moon
7.2.4.
Constellation
“houses” for zodiac signs
7.2.5. An early model
for the Goose Game's "Bridge at 6"
7.2.6. Weeks and months and other strider cycles
8. Lunar eclipses
and standstill cycles on the Disk
8.1. The 54-season Saros eclipse cycle to
field 54
8.1.1. The shape of the
Earth-shadow sign
8.1.2. The announcement in field 53 of the upcoming eclipse in
54
8.1.3. The solar eclipse in the Saros and 18 as number of
darkness
8.2. The 56-year cycle of lunar standstills
8.2.1. Moon standstills and "forward arrows" along the Disk
path
8.2.2. The 19 + 19 + 18 = 56-year
standstill cycle of the moon goddess
9. Megalithic parallels to the
Disk path
9.1. The 56-hole Aubrey
Circle at Stonehenge
9.1.1. Diffusion of numerical and astronomical ideas before
writing
9.1.2. Meanings of 56 and its connection with eclipses
9.1.3 The “Phaistoshenge” circular gameboard
9.1.4. The “marker stones” in Disk fields 17 and 27
9.2. Restoring the two
U-turns in the game path from the Disk
9.3. The Early Bronze Age “stone heap of the wild cat” in the Golan Heights
10. The Phaistos path in
square Labyrinth form
10.1. The
celestial "north
pole" on the Labyrinth board
10.2. The chess-knight path of “Falcon” and “Big Dipper”
10.3. The stippled triangle that completes the orbit
10.4. The "Feather Soul" in orbit around the "pole"
10.5. The ecliptic path on the Labyrinth Board sky
10.6. Thoth the Measurer of Time and Judge of the Dead
10.7. The “Hoofed Leg” with the celestial “Strider”
10.8. The "sky-mark" lifts its signs to heaven
10.9. A proposed re-creation of rules for the Labyrinth game
11.
The Labyrinth sky
chart and the Jerusalem Temple
11.1. The Ashtapada chessboard as
mandala and India's cosmic grid
11.2. Other examples of gameboard layouts in sacred architecture
11.3. The labyrinth-chart-like layout of the Jerusalem Temple Mount
11.4. The "Prison Gate" as formal north
entrance
11.5. Labyrinths as mythological prisons
11.6. King Solomon's ancient connections with Labyrinths
11.7. Biblical Urim and Thummim divining tools
11.8. The curtain that hid the Holy of Holies in Herod's Temple
12. The evolution of the Phaistos game into
Chess and beyond
12.1
The Chess Knight’s move and early Chess
12.2 From Chess to the Quantumgame
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