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Title: Minoan Religion


1
Minoan Religion
2
Minoan Crete Map
3
Cave of Eileithyia
  • MM cult centers
  • Baetyl
  • Animal Bones
  • Animal Figurines
  • Bronze artifacts

4
Peak Shrines
  • Link to MM protopalatial elites through artifacts
  • Linear A, Kamares Ware
  • Ash layer, no bones
  • Many figurines

5
Tripartite Shrine
6
Domestic Shrines
  • Town, Palace, House
  • Bench Sanctuary
  • Lustral Baisin
  • Pillar Crypt

7
Snake Goddess/Priestess
8
Goddess of the MountainGoddess of the Beasts
9
Goddesses
10
Minoan Pantheon
11
The Male Consort
12
Male Divinity?
  • Male figures rarer
  • Usually smaller stature
  • Lesser Male Divinity?
  • Rural Matriarchy?
  • Urban Patriarchy?

13
Ayia Triadha SarcophagusLMIIIA (14thC)Painted
Plaster over Stone
14
Celestial vs Chthonic Gods
  • Chthon
  • earth

15
Sacrifice
16
Human Sacrifice
  • Anemospilia
  • Near Archanes Heraklion
  • Bound male on altar
  • 2 others killed in room by earthquake
  • 1 killed in anteroom with krater (of blood?)

17
Child Sacrifice Cannibalism?
  • Childrens bones with butchering marks in North
    House, Knossos
  • Caravaggio

18
Child Sacrifice in Myth?
  • ?

19
Theseus the Minotaur
  • Athenians send human tribute to bull crazy
    Minoans
  • Palace at Knossos like Labyrinth to simpler
    Mycenaean Greeks

20
The Labyrinthine Palace
  • Note dismembered bodies

21
Hero Story
  • Miraculous Conception/Birth Aegeus/Poseidon
  • Hiding of/Threat to Child Troezen, with Aethra
  • Medea?
  • Societys Desire for Change No more sacrifice!
  • Withdrawal Initiation Ummmm
  • Resistance of Hero Role Ummm
  • Search for Lost Father Trip to Athens
  • Quest Killing Minotaur
  • Magical Tools/Weapons Club, thread, sword
  • Impossible Adversaries Numerous
  • Journey to Underworld Rape of Persephone
  • Return (in Disguise) to Save Beloved Ummmm

22
Early Exploits
  • Fathers Tokens
  • Heroic Journey
  • Periphetes Club
  • Crommyonian Sow
  • Sinis tree
  • Scirons turtle
  • Procrustes bed
  • Daughters?
  • Herculean hero

23
Aegeus, Medea, Theseus
  • Medea the Colchian witch
  • Murderer of brother children by Jason
  • Marathonian Bull

24
Marathonian/Cretan Bull
  • Brought to Greece as one of 12 labors of
    Herakles
  • Bull of Poseidon
  • Pasiphae Bull
  • Minotaurs father!
  • Good Credentials for facing Minotaur

25
Revenge of Minos
  • Androgeos at Panathenaic games
  • Victorious Cretan murdered by envious Athenian
    athletes or by Aegeus
  • Athenian compensation
  • 7 boys 7 girls every 9 years

26
Cretan Games
27
Theseus trip to Crete
  • Theseus as 1 of 7 boys
  • White Sails for Success
  • Black/Red Sails for Failure (death of Theseus)

28
Theseus edge Inside Woman
29
Victory!
  • Theseus slays Minotaur
  • Theseus Ariadne sail off into the sunset

30
Homeymoon on Naxos
31
Dionysus to the Rescue
  • Dionysus finds Ariadne
  • They drink happily ever after

32
Theseus sails home to celebrate victory freedom
  • Aegeus watches for beloved son
  • Ooops - black sails
  • Aegeus leaps to death
  • Oh well, Theseus becomes king of Athens

33
Theseus Herakles Fratboy Heroes
  • Herakles 12 labors
  • Girdle of Hippolyte
  • Theseus Pirithous
  • carry off Antiope/Hippolyte

34
Amazon Invasion of Attica
  • Amazons defeated, Antiope slain fighting beside
    Theseus
  • Amazonomachy artform comparable to contemporary
    Miller Lite commercial tastes great less
    filling

35
Theseus, Phaedra Hippolytus
  • Child of Antiope
  • Stepmother Phaedra
  • False accusation of rape
  • Bull from Poseidon causes death of Hipploytus in
    chariot crash
  • Phaedra hangs herself

36
More bad behavior
  • Theseus abducts 12 year old Helen
  • Theseus Pirithous go to underworld to abduct
    Persephone
  • Trapped in Chair of Oblivion
  • Rescued by Herakles

37
Death of Theseus
  • Helen rescued by her brothers, the Dioscuri
    Castor and Polydeuces (Pollux)
  • Theseus in exile
  • Murdered/fell of a cliff
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