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The Keftiu Legend: When Peace Swayed All Creatures

2021-05-14 by Phil Butler

Keftiu gifts

Knowledge of the Keftiu, the place, and the people said to have been the “nail that held up the world,” may reveal the path humanity missed.

Tags: Amphitrite, animism, Apollo, Artemis, Atlantis, Britomartis, crete, Egyptian gods, Egyptian religion, Eileithyia, El Elyon, Greatest Kouros, Hathor, Hyksos sphinxes, Knossos, Minoan gods, Minoans, Palaekastro, Palaikastro Kouros, Potnia Theron, prehistory, Rhea, Tell el-Yahudiyeh, Thera, Zeus

More Rumors, Legends, and Myths of Crete

2020-01-02 by Phil Butler

Snake Goddess - Heraklion Achaeological Museum

One of the most interesting legends of Greece is the story of the daughter of one of the Cretan Curetes (Korybantes), that of Crete (Cres).

Tags: Ages of Man, Ammon, Ammon Ra, Bronze Age, Cinaethon of Sparta, Cres, crete, Eteocretans, Idaea, Kouretes, Kretan, meliae, Minoans, Rhea, Silver Age, Talos, Zeus

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

On the Trail of the Eternal: The Secrets of the Minoans

2019-08-29 by Phil Butler

Crete and Zeus

The continuing saga of the magnificent tapestry of humanity woven within the secrets of the Minoans. Part of a series by Argophilia.

Tags: ancient texts, Arthur Evans, Aryan Race, British School at Athens, crete, Dr. Joseph MacGillivray, esoteric beliefs, Gaia, Gaia goddess, God quest, Homer, Ilse Schoep, Itar, Knossos, Knossos Temple, La Marle, Linear A, MacGillivray, Minoan beliefs, Minoan mantras, Minoan Mysteries, Minoan religion, Minoans, Nazi archaeology, religion, Rhea, Zakros, Zeus, Zoroaster

The Legend of Glaucus of Crete: Divining Ancient Mysteries

2019-04-02 by Phil Butler

Blue Boy Frescoe

The following story-report brings to the forefront the question “When do we consider a multitude of coincidences key parts of a greater fact?”

Tags: crete, Glaucus, Knossos, Minoan, Minoan legends, Minoan myths, Minos, Pasiphaë, Zeus

Crete Reconnaissance: At the Altar of Zeus

2018-04-19 by Phil Butler

Lasithi

We finally took the opportunity to drive to one of Crete’s most fascinating places this week. The Lasithi Plateau, located in the Lasithi regional unit in eastern Crete, Greece is famous today for the thousands of windmills that once irrigated the fertile soils of the plateau.

Tags: Cave of Psychro, crete, Diktaean Cave, Greek mythology, Lasithi, Lasithi Plateau, Monastery of Kroustaleni, Psychro, Taverna DICTAMUS, Zeus




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