Goddess and the Warrior

The Indebtedness of Minoan Religion to Egyptian Solar Religion: Was Sir Arthur Evans Right?

“…He was never able to reconcile the two prototypes fully in his mind, and they are indeed incompatible. 36 Regardless, there is much to support Evans' Egyptian solar hypothesis. On no less than four gold rings, the Minoan deities appear with the sun, or with sun and moon together in the same scene (Figures 5 & 8b).…”

“…that this monistic view of the universe is the key to Evans' conception of monotheism, a theory that was inspired by the Egyptian model. 28 In Egypt, the goddess Nut both swallowed and gave birth to the sun, and was thus both day and night. What Evans never articulated (although he came close) is that the Minoan goddess might have been the female equivalent of Ra.…”

Elysion and Egypt

“…138) and Calypso a daughter of Atlas, the journey of Odysseus, like that of Gilgamesh, seems to follow the course of the solar path around the cosmos. 12 Note, however, that from Circe's island, Odysseus crosses the Ocean to Hades and then back; more will be said on this later (see "Hades"). In all, a Greek cosmic map based on the model of the Babylonian universe makes perfect sense of the complex narrative of the Odyssey (Figures 1-4).…”

Υγρά Κέλευθα

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