Gundestrup Cauldron - Phaistos Disk Decoded

Was the Gundestrup Cauldron a carefully planned meditation diagram comparable to the Phaistos Disk?

Was the Gundestrup Cauldron designed as a meditation diagram AD93-144 during the reign of Hadrian with a detailed overview of the meditation system taught by the Buddha

The Cauldron with 16 pieces of silver and one piece of the iron ring – peculiarly dated to the 3rd century BC, different from the rest – was found carefully buried at Gundestrup in Denmark. The Cauldron is thought to be Viking loot stolen in southern Europe. With numbers of the Phaistos Disk the panels can be analysed to reveal a carefully designed overview of the meditation system. With a reinterpretation of the facts a different history of Europe will be revealed.

Teacher’s panel: illustration of the Dhamma Cakka Ppavattana Sutta in the deer park Isipatana

Natmus carbon dating of the beeswax of AD93-144 matches the reign of Roman Emperor Hadrian. Silver coins from several countries ranging from Syria, where he was appointed Emperor, via Hungary to the silver mines of Germany at Mogontiacum (Frankfurt) and western France were melted down to create the Cauldron.

Did Hadrian, appointed as Emperor in Syria, make the Gundestrup Cauldron from votive coins donated to promote peace in the Empire through "friendship"?

The horse as symbol of an ascetic life was the an-iconic symbol for the Buddha most used in Europe, following the example of the Bodhisatta who left his palace on his white horse Kanthaka in pursuit of liberation. Votive Celtic “horse coins” designed as meditation diagrams were minted 500 years after the Buddha c. 44 BC.

Celtic votive horse coins were designed as meditation diagrams before money was used

The mystery of why silver coins were collected from so many countries can be explained by a passage from the treatise “On the Ruin of Britain” written around AD530 by Gildas, born in Scotland and trained as a Christian monk in Ireland. The Cauldron was a project to promote peace and cooperation in the Roman Empire through practice of philosophy:

“5. For when the rulers of Rome had obtained the empire of the world, subdued all the neighbouring nations and islands towards the east, and strengthened their renown by the first peace which they made with the Parthians, who border on India, there was a general cessation from war throughout the whole world; the fierce flame which they kindled could not be extinguished or checked by the Western Ocean, but passing beyond the sea, imposed submission upon our island without resistance…”

Were Romans who traded with India practicing the meditation system originally taught by the Buddha?

Roman Empire map under Hadrian who supported the meditation system linked to India: the "dialectics of philosophy"

The Cauldron was thought to have been made in Thrace with a community of Goth traders. The Thracians visited Athens, the celebration in the Piraeus Harbour of Athens formed the opening sentences of Plato’s famous dialogue, The Republic. The philosophy teacher of the Goths, Zamolxis, was the favourite student of Pythagoras (Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras).

The 17th piece, an iron ring as symbol of the cycle of rebirth, dated from the 3rd century BC; when Ashoka’s envoy of 5 enlightened monks was sent to Europe to teach the Dhamma. The 16 pieces of silver were chosen deliberately: Sixteen Vipassanā Insight Knowledges.

Virgil’s question to Dante while discussing northern Italy:

“…Art thou, too, of the other fools?”

Canto 20 line 27

The motif of the famous antlered teacher’s panel was illustrated on a large petroglyph of a human figure holding a knife and ring with an S-shaped snake to represent rebirth in Val Camonica, northern Italy. The symbolism still played a major role when Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy in the 14th century, following the system of numbers on the Phaistos Disk that was used to design the Gundestrup Cauldron.

In the Divine Comedy Dante described various sites where meditation was still practiced. He met his previous teacher, Brunetto Latini from the Fesole near Florence in the 7th circle (Seven Stages of Purification as goal) of Hell in Canto 15 (number that identifies the teacher), saying “You taught me how a man becomes eternal; And how much I am grateful, while I live Behoves that in my language be discerned.“

Dante names the sites at Luni and Val Camonica in Canto 20 – the 20th symbol of the bird on the Phaistos Disk refers to the meditation system of liberation, it always appeared combined with the “horn”, symbol of the 6th sense and liberation. After a sudden earthquake in Canto 20 the poet Statius appears in Canto 21, released from his sins that kept him captive in Hell.

Notably poet Virgil implies that Dante himself was one of the people who practiced meditation when he asks, after Dante cried with sorrow for the suffering seen, Canto 20 Line 27:

“…Art thou, too, of the other fools?”

— Dante, Divine Comedy, Longwood, Hell Canto 20, line 27

Gundestruop Cauldron: codes illustrated

Gundestrup Cauldron a meditation diagram

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When the Gundestrup Cauldron is compared to the meditation system originally taught by the Buddha in India in the 6th century BC there is a perfect match: the famous “horned deity” tells the visual story of the first time the Buddha explained the process of enlightenment to his followers in a Deer Park in India: the Dhamma Cakka Ppavattana Sutta.

Buried in Denmark 16 silver pieces (made mainly from Celtic and Germanic votive coins that were melted down) were accompanied by one fragment of an iron ring dated in a report by the Natmus to the 3rd century BC – when Ashoka sent an envoy of enlightened monks to Europe.

Recent carbon dating of the beeswax for the National Museum of Denmark suggests a 90% probability that the Cauldron was made between 93-144 AD – during the reign of Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian.

A mind-boggling scenario that matches all historical dates presents itself. Made as a project to promote peace in the Roman Empire the Cauldron was designed at the same time as the Pantheon in Rome based on the “mystic numbers of Pythagoras”. Plutarch, a contemporary of Hadrian and priest in Delphi, described in an essay with 21 chapters “On the ‘E’ at Delphi’ the exact same information that was later used to design definitions for the rune symbols in Scandinavia.

If the Gundestrup Cauldron was designed in Rome as a key to reintroduce the mystic numbers of Pythagoras, the first one to call himself a philosopher – a lover of wisdom – the Cauldron was not “Viking loot” as described, but a highly prized votive object, a symbol of peace and wisdom that was protected from destruction for centuries. The Cauldron contained the key to the practice of the “dialectics of philosophy” that was carefully protected by advanced meditators for up to a thousand years before it was disassembled and carefully buried at Gundestrup in Denmark when meditation practices were under sever threat and banned in Southern Europe.

Whatever the original conventional history of the Cauldron may be, its meaning at every level – from the main plates to the smallest individual markings in the silver – represents the universal truth about existence in the cycle of life as taught by the Buddha in India in the 6th century BC.