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1600 B.C. Spring festival Guests proceed to the theatre of the palace to honour the Great Mother, Goddess Nature. The guide informs the guests about the proceedings. Everybody is excited about what will follow. The high-priestess enters the stage. She is burning incense from aromatic herbs of the
1600 B.C. Spring festival
Guests proceed to the theatre of the palace to honour the Great Mother, Goddess Nature.
The guide informs the guests about the proceedings. Every body is excited about what will follow.
The high-priestess enters the stage. She is burning incense from aromatic herbs of the Cretan land. Offerings are given to the personification of Goddess Nature, the olive tree (treeworship).
offerings follow, gifts of the Cretan Earth. Carobes, nuts, pines, fruit etc.
The Minoan ladies dance to hnour the Goddess along with the men. Their union, a symbol og equality and love in honour of the Great Mother.
The games will begin. Strength, stamina and intelligence will surface through the bull games, surviving the fatal risks of the game with the sacred bull.
The high priestess embraces the Minotaur in a ritual dance.
The Museum Nikos Kazantzakis in Myrtia Heraklion opened on June 27, 1983 by the culture minister Melina Mercouri.
A paradise on earth, with opalescent pink sand created by shards of shells and warm water. The entire area is protected by the NATURA program of the EU, as a region of utmost beauty.
The Piraeus Archaeological Museum offers the visitor a complete image of the city’s history, which was marked by great sevelopment during the ancient times, both as a commercial center of the eastern Mediterranean, and also as a naval base of ancient Athens.
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