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Much Minoan art is given a religious significance of some sort, but this tends to be vague, not least because Minoan government is now often seen as a theocracy, so politics and religion have a considerable overlap. The Minoan pantheon featured many deities -- the majority are female, but a young, spear-wielding male god is also prominent. [6]
In this cult, two deities were worshipped; one male and one female. [1] In this tree cult, while the Mother Goddess was viewed as a personification of tree-vegetation, the male god formed a "concrete image of the vegetation itself in the shape of a divine child or a youth", with the two forming a mother and child relationship. [ 2 ]
Minoan art is often described as having a fantastical or ecstatic quality, with figures rendered in a manner suggesting motion. Little is known about the structure of Minoan society. Minoan art contains no unambiguous depiction of a monarch, and textual evidence suggests they may have had some other form of governance.
By Dexithea, one of the Telchines, he had a son called Euxanthius. [13] By Androgeneia of Phaistos, he had Asterion, who commanded the Cretan contingent in the war between Dionysus and the Indians. [14] Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, [15] and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros. [16]
The Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos showing bull-leaping, c. 1450 BC; probably, the dark skinned figure is a man and the two light skinned figures are women. The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.
The bishops of Gortyn continued to call themselves bishops of Knossos until the nineteenth century. [22] The diocese was abolished in 1831. [21] During the ninth century AD the local population shifted to the new town of Chandax (modern Heraklion). By the thirteenth century, it was called the Makruteikhos 'Long Wall'.
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Minoan gold votive double axe or labrys. On the left blade is an inscription in undeciphered Linear A; posssibly an invocation to the goddess Demeter. [1] [2] Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, romanized: lábrys) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe. In Greek it was called πέλεκυς ...