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Amnisos
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Amnisos, also Amnissos and Amnisus, is the current but unattested name given to a Bronze Age settlement on the north shore of Crete that was used as a port to the palace city of Knossos. It appears in
Wall-painting from the villa, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
Wall-painting from the villa, on display at the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion
The "House of the Lilies".
The "House of the Lilies".
Another wall-painting from the villa
Another wall-painting from the villa
Eileithyia
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Eileithyia or Ilithyia was the Greek goddess of childbirth and midwifery, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
Amnisos
…was no navigable stream to Knossos, today part of the port city. The road was lined with very ancient cult sites. One site is the cave of the goddess Eileithyia. It contained objects dating as far back as the Neolithic period. Such a cave is mentioned by Odysseus in the Odyssey, and the ancient Greek geographer…
The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus, with Eileithyia on the right
The birth of Athena from the head of Zeus, with Eileithyia on the right
Zeus with two goddesses, perhaps two Eileithyiae, on a black-figure hydria from Rhodes, c. 530 BC
Zeus with two goddesses, perhaps two Eileithyiae, on a black-figure hydria from Rhodes, c. 530 BC