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"Snake Goddess" or a priestess performing a ritual. Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete.In the absence of readable texts from most of the period, modern scholars have reconstructed it almost totally on the basis of archaeological evidence such as Minoan paintings, statuettes, vessels for rituals and seals and rings.
Assyrian hero grasping a lion and a snake Single bull-man wrestling with a lion, Mesopotamia, 3rd millennium BC. Although such figures are not all, or even usually, deities, the term may be a generic name for a number of deities from a variety of cultures with close relationships to the animal kingdom or in part animal form (in cultures where that is not the norm).
Minoan art included elaborately decorated pottery, seals, figurines, and colorful frescoes. Typical subjects include nature and ritual. 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.
Goddess of motherhood and mother of the twin Olympians, Artemis and Apollo. Menoetius: Μενοίτιος (Menoítios) God of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality. Killed by Zeus. Metis: Μῆτις (Mē̂tis) Goddess of good counsel, advice, planning, cunning, craftiness, and wisdom. Mother of Athena. Oceanides (Ωκεανίδες)
The snake goddess's Minoan name may be related with A-sa-sa-ra, a possible interpretation of inscriptions found in Linear A texts. [25] Although Linear A is not yet deciphered, Palmer [clarification needed] relates tentatively the inscription a-sa-sa-ra-me which seems to have accompanied goddesses, with the Hittite išhaššara, which means ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
Gods of Animals; A450. Gods of Trades and Professions A451. Artisan Gods; A452. Gods of Hunting; A454. Gods of Healing; A460. Gods of Abstractions (also Z110. Abstractions personified) A461. Gods of Wisdom; A463. Gods of Fate. A463.1. the Fates (goddesses who preside over the fates of men) A464. Gods of Justice; A465. Gods of the Arts; A472 ...
The earliest forms of the Minoan Genius derived from the Egyptian prototypes between approximately 1800 and 1700 BC. [1] In Egypt, Taweret was the goddess of fertility, childbirth and the protection of young children, and some scholars have thought the Genius had similar functions, although the Minoan evidence for this is limited.