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Posidonia 2022 Shipping Expo to Feature Greece’s Seafaring Culture

2022-06-05 by Argophilia Travel News

Posidonia Events

Posidonia 2022 expo will reveal the unbreakable connection between Greek culture and the sea June 6th – 10th at the Athens Metropolitan Expo.

Tags: Athens events, Athens Metropolitan Exp0, culture, Culture Ministry of Greece, Greek culture, Greek history, Greek shipping, Greek ships, Lina Mendoni, Poseidon, Posidonia 2022

The Last Priest of Poseidon: Chapter One – The Gate

2021-02-07 by Phil Butler

Secret falls

Is is said, that Keftiu, the island of the dead, hides a portal to the afterlife. The last priest of a god, tells a modern tale of adventure.

Tags: adventure tales, animism, Atlantis, book excerpts, Cretan landscapes, Crete airports, Crete legends, fantasy, Fantasy Crete, Gates of Hades, goddess worship, Markos Skordalakis -, Minoan goddess, Minoan myths, Minoans, Poseidon, Thalori Retreat, time portals

The Last Priest of Poseidon

2020-02-14 by Phil Butler

The Course of Empire

For Plato the island of Atlantis was Poseidon’s domain. Here on Crete the gods are still at play.

Tags: Amnissos, ancient Crete, antiquity, crete, gods, Greek gods, Greek myths, Halicarnassus, Knossos, Korinthos, Minoan gods, Minoan myths, myths, Phaistos, Philistos, Poseidon, priests

Riddle of the Throne of Knossos: A Codec for Good and Evil

2019-12-10 by Phil Butler

The Giants

What you are about to read will hopefully shed new light on Knossos and those ancient inhabitants of Crete known as the Minoans.

Tags: Aloades Giants, Arthur Evans, Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, Cave of Zeus, Cronus, Elias Ashmole, Emile Gillerons, Horn of Viannos, Ioannis Asnastasakis, Knossos, Knossos Palace, Knossos Throne, Lassithi Plateau, Minoan Civilization, Minoan Crete, Piet De Jong, Poseidon, Zeus

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