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The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion Martin Nilsson
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers, Incorporated

[The eruption of a volcano on the island of Thera] set off a huge procession of mass migrations and invasions which wrecked the Hittite and Mycenaean empires, [and] threw the world into a dark ages within which came the dawn of consciousness. )If the Greeks had been constantly confined to the indoors because of frequent snowstorms, their civilization would likely have taken a different course.) In the upper left corner of the flag is a cross that symbolizes the Greek Orthodox religion. Until the fall of Minoan civilization, which then formed the basis for the recording of Mycenaean Greek in Linear B. Their counterparts in Europe.[1] This new narrative cannot be reconciled with the traditional account, which is still being taught in the vast majority of schools and universities. If anyone needs any proof that archaeological interpretation is a largely derivative exercise, drawing its narrative tropes from modern fears and conceits– rather than any realistic divination of the very different character of the past– 1700-1450 BC), when Minoan civilization was at its height. In _Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization_, its author, Donald P. Minoan Crete; Mycenaean Greece; The Mycenaeans in literature: The Iliad and The Odyssey; The Greek Dark Age: Tough Times in Ancient Greece; More about Homer: why the ancient Greeks loved him so much; The . A product of this is the subsequent Hinduism and the Greek and Mycenaean religions. Advocates of the revisionist version (“the Afrocentric narrative”) claim Egyptian motifs appear in Minoan and Mycenaean art, and Egyptian . In the countryside, the local pertaining to worship practices will survive, by taking a quasi Christian form sometimes. A team of archaeologists have unearthed five chamber tombs at Ayia Sotira, a cemetery in the Nemea Valley in Greece, just a few hours walk from the ancient city of Mycenae. (State): JOHN BOARDMAN, Greek Gems and Finger Kings (1970). The large features characteristic of the religion and mythology Greek - for example anthropomorphism of its gods - go up at the time Mycenaean (towards 1580-1100 av. The Minoan language was recorded in writing too, in a script called Linear A , in use from about 1625 B.C.E. This timing is close in time to the period when Italic language colonies were established in Italy and the Villanovan culture had some similar religious innovations (like cremation) and technological innovations to the Romans. The Greek religion, very flexible, could assimilate elements coming from the people autochtones of the Greek peninsula or Minoan civilization. NILSSON, The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion, 2nd ed. (1950), remains the standard work.