A Computer - Aided Translation of the Phaistos Disk

This paper presents a novel semi-automatic translation method for the Phaistos Disk that had no convincing translation for over a century. The method uses for a recently discovered connection between the Phaistos Disk symbols and other ancient scripts, including the Old Hungarian alphabet. The connection between the Phaistos Disk script and the Old Hungarian alphabet suggested the possibility that the Phaistos Disk language may be related to Proto-Finno-Ugric, Proto-Ugric, or Proto-Hungarian. Using words and suffixes from those languages, it is possible to translate the Phaistos Disk text as an ancient sun hymns that are connected to a winter solstice ceremony and a mythological explanation of the perceived daily route of the Sun in the sky. Keywords—Acrophonic principle, Cretan Hieroglyph, Linear A, Linear B, Phaistos Disk, Proto-Finno-Ugric, Proto-Hungarian