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Garden of Eden

Stories From Keftiu: The Rhadamanthys Precedent

2021-11-02 by Phil Butler

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A first in a series of stories (chapters) from the myth and reality of the land the ancients called Keftiu.

Tags: Garden of Eden, Ioannis Liapakis, Kallia Mercoulidi, Keftiu, Keftiu goddess, Keftiu Precedent, Knossos, Knossos II, Manolis Liapakis, Minas Liapakis, Minoan goddess, Minoans, Minos, Phaistos, Rhea, Snake Goddess

Exploring Argyroupoli: The Valley of the Fairies

2018-04-07 by Phil Butler

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The story you are about to read may challenge what you believe a bit. But I am sure it will also speak to something in you. For this discovery of mine here on Crete I owe my wife Mihaela and our friend Rebecca Skevaki, who’s the founder of Crete Urban Adventures, a big thanks. And to them I say, now you know why I was acting a bit funny during our exploration of ancient Lappa. Here’s the story of the Valley of the Fairies beneath the village of Argyroupoli (ancient Lappa).

Tags: Argyroupoli, Argyroupoli Cultural Association, crete, Crete Urban Adventures, daimones, Diotima, EDEN, Garden of Eden, Idramia, Lappa, Plato's Symposium, Sfakion, Tou Kostanti

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Before Sfakia’s rise as a speleological hotspot, most headlines about the region involved goats, legends, and the occasional sheep with an attitude problem. But nothing puts a mountain village on the map—literally like a spot on the international speleological map—quite like the discovery of a vast underground abyss filled with secrets, mud, and the kind […]

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