No, I wasn't saying that it was Aryan - I was saying that I didn't know
as the evidence on hand could go either way.
Coincidently I found this on the topic last night...
'It would seem then, that Attic tradition points backward to a time when
the Labyrinth was depicted, not as a palace, but as a meander or
swastika-pattern. The same result is reached on Cretan soil. Coins of
Knossos from c.500 BC onwards represent the labyrinth by a swastika.
[...] Thanks to Sir Arthur Evans, we now know that this Labyrinth-design
was already familiar to the Cnossians of the Bronze Age. In one of the
corridors of the second palace at Knossos 'the fallen plaster...showed
the remains of an elaborate series of mazes,' based on the motif of the
swastika. [...] However that may be, it seems certain that both Attic
and Cretan art presuppose the swastika as the earliest ascertainable
form of the labyrinth [...] on this showing, the original Cnossian
Labyrinth was not the great palace unearthed by Sir Arthur Evans, at
least was not the whole of the palace, but was a structure which somehow
lent itself to an imitation of the sun's movements in the sky.'
'Our enquiries into Cretan religion have hitherto led us towards two
conclusions. On the one hand, in Cretan myth the sun was conceived as a
bull. On the other hand, in Cretan ritual the labyrinth was an orchestra
of solar pattern presumably made for a mimetic dance.'
A. B. Cook, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion Vol. 1 (Cambridge
University Press: 1914).
Unfortunately I can't include the pictures of the coins he describes...
The elements of the goddess are also undeniably there, especially in the
associations with Ariadne and Dionysus - Cook actually goes to conclude
that there appears to have been a synthesis on solar and lunar worship
at Minos.
The snake goddess article is on
http://www.archaeology.org/0101/abstracts/goddess.html
It isn't just one snake goddess statue - apparently at least 14 have
been certified as fakes so far...
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--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "vandermok" <vandermok@...>
wrote:
Savitar, if you are saying that the Minoan civilization was not so
close to Pelasgians and Dionysian cults, I reply that to be Aryans
is not sufficient.
Of course, now I recognize the statue. Infamous? Goddesses and
priestesses with the breast naked are common in the Minoan frescos,
and there are many unnamed Snake Goddesses around. True or false,
that find is not the only one. You know Erich Neumann; if you has
got his 'The Great Mother', see various pictures and especially the
statue on the table 56 at the end: here the snakes climb on the
arms.
Ariadne is a Venusian facet, and in fact in the Minoan palaces
dolphins and shells are common, all animals of Aphrodite.
As for the swastika, is common in Greece indeed and even on amphorae
showing the Animal's Goddess, another unnamed one (see pictures in
Neumann quoted, or in Jean Richer).