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Minoan mythology

The mythology Minoan refers to the cults practiced in Crete by the Minoan civilization. These cults are turned towards nature, vegetation and their rhythms. This is particularly noticeable through gods and goddesses who die and are reborn each year, and through the use of symbols such as the bull (or bull's horns), serpent, doves. Although it disappears with the arrival of Achaeans then Dorians in Greece then in Crete, the Minoan religion nevertheless left its mark in the myths and the pantheon of classical Greece.

Minoan mythology (texts)

Minoan civilization

• Santorini and the legend of Atlantis
• The city of Akrotiri in Santorini
• The Palace of Knossos
• The Palaces of Phaistos, Hagia Triada and Malia
• The Phaistos Disc
• Labyrinth, the Palace with the ax shower
• The Minoan civilization and its decline
• The Palace of Minos by Arthur Joan Evans
• Scripta Minoa by Arthur Joan Evans

Minoan Mythology by the Greeks: Childhood of Zeus

• Dance of the Curetes
• Dance of the Corybantes
• Dikteon Andron cave
• Talos the Bronze Giant

Minoan mythology by the Greeks: Minos

• Zeus, Europe and the birth of Minos
• Minos and Rhadamante, judges of the Underworld
• Pasiphae and the birth of the minotaur
• Zeus, Minos and the Minotaur
• Glaucos son of Minos

Minoan mythology by the Greeks: Icarus and Daedalus

• Icarus Island
• The Flight of Icarus
• Daedalus and the minotaur
• Minos, Daedalus and the labyrinth

Minoan mythology by the Greeks: Theseus

• Meleager, the Calydonian boar
• The Argonauts
• Pandion Estate
• Epitome, Theseus and the Minotaur
• Lapiths and Centaurs I
• Lapiths and Centaurs II
• Theseus, the Illustrious Man
• Theseus and the Thesprotes
• Theseus, Hippolite and Phaedra
• Theseus and the Labors of Hercules
• Helen's Abduction