
There are many mysterious discs being seen in the skies around the world. This disc was not seen in the sky but dug up on the island of Crete. It’s called the Phaistos Disc and no one has been able to decipher it. There are numerous guesses about what it might be. Of the many guesses, I think my favorite is that it’s some type of ancient board game. It amuses me to picture our ancient ancestors, some 3500 years ago, playing their version of Monopoly!
There’s little hope of ever translating the symbols on the disc. We don’t have any other examples of this ‘language.’ Without a larger sampling, it’s simply impossible to figure out the intended meaning. Though human beings have never stopped trying to accomplish the impossible. Our one chance to solve the mystery would be a new archaeological discovery that contained another sampling of the symbols. Or better yet, a Rosetta Stone type tablet that would give us a translation in a language already known.
I was fortunate enough to see this disc on display in a museum. I even bought a book about it. Yet I’m unable to make any sense of it. Of course, I’m unable to make sense of a lot of things, but that’s another story. However, the disc did set my mind to considering the place of mystery in our lives. Humans don’t like mystery. We want to know all the answers. The universe is not designed to allow us to know all the answers. No matter how much we learn or how much we advance our technology, there will be mysteries. Mysteries in the far reaches of the universe. Mysteries within our own human nature. And definitely mysteries about God.