Minoan religion
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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 b
"Snake Goddess" or a priestess performing a ritual
Very late terracotta votive offering figures, believed to represent deities. The poppy goddess is in the back row
Gold ring with Sitting Goddess and row of Minoan Genius figures bearing offerings, found in context from Mycenaean Greece, but probably made in Crete, NAMA
Worn gold ring with epiphany scene: at right a worshipper invokes a tree, at left a goddess with two birds appears in the air. The standing central figure may be a god.
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
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The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is a late Minoan 137 cm -long limestone sarcophagus, dated to around 1400 BC or some decades later, excavated from a chamber tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete in 1903 and now on
The other face
Side view
Scene on the "rear" side, with bull sacrifice