The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion by Martin Nilsson

The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion Martin Nilsson ebook
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers, Incorporated
Page: 656
ISBN: 9780819602732
Format: pdf

In the Middle Bronze Age, the Minoan Civilisation of Crete started to develop around 2500 BC. It is probably the spoken tradition the helped them survive upheavals when writing was destroyed and forgotten. So although the official religion throughout the Ottoman Empire was Islam, the Greeks were completely free to practise their Greek Orthodox Christianity. Ethnic, religious and linguistic divisions might see others attain independence. Its original walls and ruins date from about 9000 BC, being located a couple of kilometres outside of the current Arab village, on the Ein es-Sultan spring. The Cretan religion is usually considered to be centred on goddess worship but the bull was very important in their artwork as well. Fortunately the island of Crete escaped and a sophisticated civilization grew up, called Minoan after its kings, Minos. The Minoans were extremely advanced, with art, music and architecture. The upper stories do not survive and so to draw a conclusion from a fraction of the material seems unwise. They built huge palaces on Crete, with hundreds or even thousands of rooms. If the later Greek legend has any basis of fact in its description of Cretan sea power, the Minoans may simply have relied upon destroying enemies at sea and not bothered to fortify. The Changing Myths (Greek) zeus and kouritesConquerors and peaceful settlers brought their own beliefs into Clues to the religion of this early civilisation are found in fine object such as those made of marble, fertility symbols etc. Visiting there in the mid 1990's I was Following a series of natural disasters Minoan fell prey to the Greek mainland civilization from Mycenae, around 1550 BC. Again through controlling the trade ..