Minoans, Hittites,

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Minoans, Hittites, Myceneans

• Aegean and Anatolian Civilizations pre 1200,
• ie. Before the Sea Peoples

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Western Asia Minor looks West
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Linear A Not yet deciphered
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Linear B an early Greek Dialect Syllabary
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Minoans--Knossos
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Minoans were sea Merchants These depict Crete
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Thera, a Minoan colony
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Thera cont.
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Blue Nubian monkeys Contacts with Egypt
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Knossos- Palace area?
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MinoansBull Ceremony
Left, early- c. 2000 BC Below, Late Minoan
II-IIIa, c. 1400 BC
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Ancient color convention
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MinoansWomen in Society
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Opium Poppy Crocuses
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Cycladic Figures
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Women
Venus with horn Laussel
Venus of Willendorf
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The Goddess as having Dominion over the
underworld- Snakes, the earth-lions,
phoenix, Etc., and the ocean-dolphins
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Mother Goddess as Mountain goddess, surmounted by
lions
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So-called Worship-ring, note man with barley,
alter with a tree?
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Note what the Goddess under the tree is holding
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Perhaps an epiphany of one goddess, four women
partake in a vigorous ritual dance. The
ceremony takes place out of doors.
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Presenting the crocuses to a seated Goddess
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Mycenea
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Mycenea, Lion Gate
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Troy Reconstructed
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Trojan War