Ancient Apocalypse - The Minoans pt.1

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[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 The way that the Minoans most influenced the religion of the Greeks was in their deities. Greek gods including Zeus, Athena, Artemis and numerous others took their inspiration from the gods and goddesses of the Minoans.



[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 The religion of the Minoan civilisation had a profound effect on the religion of the Ancient Greeks. The Cretans had a large impact on the formation of Greek culture and religion. The Greeks formed their religious beliefs and practices by taking and adapting those of surrounding cultures and Minoan civilisation was one of the most prominent of these

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 The Minoans had a large influence on Ancient Greek religious practices and broader culture

[R3dro0st3R]

For example, the lyre, an important musical instrument used in many Greek religious practices, is likely to have been brought to Greece through Minoan Crete. An early form of the lyre is depicted in seal impressions found in Knossos. Leading authority on Minoan Crete Sinclair Hood writes The music of the Greeks, like so much of their religion, may have been derived from Bronze Age Crete.” (Hood 1971, p. 139)

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 Even the concept of Heaven in the form of the Elysian Fields is thought to be a legacy from the religion of Bronze Age Crete (Hood 1971, p. 139). In addition to this, many Greek religious practices probably take their inspiration or literal form from those of the Minoans, these include religious music and dancing styles as well as some sacrificial practices.

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 Adding to this, Nilsson writes

Natural religion is associated with the soil. Lands may change in respect of population , but the immigrants do not refuse their homage to the old gods of the country. The latter do not entirely disappear, even though they are supplanted and transformed. This was in all probability what took place in Greece in prehistoric times. (Nilsson 1925, p. 71)

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 The Ancient Greeks are known to have formed their religion by taking and adapting the deities and religious methods of surrounding cultures and Minoan Crete was one of their major influences. Historian Will Durant writes "By a hundred channels the old civilization emptied itself into the new." (Durant 1939, p. 73).

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 Additionally, in the Greek temples of Delphi, Delos and Eleusis many others artefacts that are certainly of Minoan origin, or at least Minoan-inspired, have been uncovered.

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 one example is described by Nilsson as;At Mycenae a stepped base of a kind similar to that upon which the double axe was erected was recently found. This find is important because it shows that the cult was carried on upon the Mycenaean mainland in the same manner as in Minoan Crete (Nilsson 1925, p. 99

[R3dro0st3R]

@MrAugustus88 This strong religious influence first permeated mainland Greece through the Mycenaeans. The evidence of this is seen in archeological artefacts and structures which have been discovered on the mainland which prove that Minoan religious idols and methods were in use,