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Karfi

Keftiu Myth As the Source of Both Legends and Facts

2021-10-24 by Phil Butler

Ritual at Knossos

Keftiu, or Caphtor to biblical scholars, may have been the source of many of our legends, and beliefs. What part of Keftiu myth is real?

Tags: Caphtor, Caphtorim, Crete legends, Curetes, Egyptology, Eteocretans, Flood Narrative, Hebrew Bible, Homer, J.D.S. Pendlebury, Karfi, Keftiu, Noah, Phillistines, Praisos, The Sea Peoples, Zeus myth

King Sarpedon and Rumors of Empires Lost and Won

2019-11-23 by Phil Butler

Sea People

Scholars unveil more and more to help us understand antiquity. But our legacy remains in the ethereal playground of King Sarpedon.

Tags: Akhenaten, archaeology, Cherethites, Crete legends, Eteocretans, Idaea, J. D. S. Pendlebury, Karfi, Knossos, Kuretes, Lukka, Lycia, Lycians, Malia, Malia Palace, Minoans, Minos, Mt. Ida, Mycenae, Mycenean, Pindar, Rhadamanthus, Sarpedon, Sea People, Teucer, Troy

Lassithi Plateau in Athens Cultural Preservation Focus

2018-02-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Lassithi windmills

In a recent Athens meet-up decision makers discussed the further promotion, maintenance, and protection of the great cultural heritage of Crete’s Lassithi Plateau. The focus of the meeting was on Dictaean Cave, as well as other prominent Lassithi cultural sites, and a coming visit by the Minister of Culture of Greece to Crete.  

Tags: Culture Minister, Dictaean Cave, Dikteon Andron, Giannis Stefanakis, Greece culture, Greece monuments, Greece travel, Karfi, Kera Monastery, Lassithi Plateau, Lydia Koniordou

Prayer of Yidini: Echoes of Karfi

2018-02-11 by Phil Butler

A story from ancient Karfi, a story of how the last Minoans may have lived and believed. Karfi was the last stronghold of a magnificent culture destroyed by the gods.

Tags: crete, Karfi, Karphi, Keftiu, Lassithi, Lassithi Plateau, Mallia, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Crete, Minoan ruins, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Phaistos, Thera, Thera eruption, Tylissos, Yidini

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