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| Regarded female goddesses closely associated with vegetation and fertility. Minoans warshiped on mountaintops, that are associated with life giving rain. They believe caves are the universal symbol of the womb. The minoans sacrificed bulls and other animals. They thought that bulls were symbolically associated with male verility and strength. |
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| Isa myth that tells how something came about. For example the hebrew bible believes that god created the heavens and earth. |
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| Means "Rule of the sea". The greeks needed to counter the phoenician thallassocracy by developing itsown rule of the sea |
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| A prehistoric limestone figurine of a naked, faceless, obese woman, discovered at willendorf, Austria. It is small enough to hold in ones hand. Such figures have been madeto symbolize fertility or fecundity. |
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| The snake goddess is believed to be one of many ritual objects found in the Palace of Minos at knossos which Sir Arthur Evans found. He spent enormous liberties trying to reconstruct the original piece. They based the reconstruction on hypothesis rather than on factual evidence. Some scholars question the authenticity. The snake is a symbol of rebirth and fertility. |
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| Also known as a shaman who practices communication with the spiritual world. They use bird like masks for rituals to reunite the animal and human worlds. |
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| Oldest story ever recorded. It's a long narrative poem that follows characters of a high position through a series of adventures. Scholars believe the epic is he most exaltic poetic form. |
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| Ruler of the underworld and god of the dead. According to the myth he was murdered by his wicked brother Seth, who chopped him into little pieces and threw him into the Nile. Isis collected all the parts, put him back together and restored his life. |
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| The belief that the body was essential to ka's survival in the after-life, upon death the body was carried across to the west of the Nile. The body was washed with Natron. The body was moved to the House of Beauty, where it was properly embalmed. The inner organs were placed in special canopic jars. Then they stuff the body so it keeps its shape and surrounded by bags of natron for 40 days. The priest recited the required text and incantations. After 40 days, the body was cleaned with spices and perfumes. Artificial eyes were put into its eye sockets and cosmetics applied to the face, and a wid put on its head. once dressed the body was wrapped in a shroud of bandages. first the head and neck were wrapped, then fingers and toes individually, and the same for the arms and legs which were tied together. The embalmers placed a papyrus scroll with spells from the book of the dead between the wrapped hands. After several more layers of wrappings they added liquid resin to glue the bandages together. The embalmers painted a picture of the god Osiris on the wrapping surface. The mummy was ready for it's final ritual burial. The process took 70 days. |
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| a word of mouth based story that was written down in the phoenician alphabet. This was a story that had been passed down from generation to generation. He composed two great epic poems the Illiad and the Odyssey. The first one is about the 10year trojan war to bring back hellen. The next story the Odyssey is about Odysseus returning home from fighting. |
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