[eleni121]

Of possible interest to this thread:

"Although long thought to be a peaceful people, recent evidence uncovered at a temple structure near one of the palaces shows that the Minoans engaged in human sacrifice."

From
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/Minoans.html

When I was there a few years back (absolutely beautiful place to visit), it was commonly acknowledged that Minoans practiced human sacrifice and although not "warlike" - whatever that means - were ready willing and able to defend their mercantile interests through their ships and the Minoan Civiliation is often called a "thalossocracy" that is, a "sea power" - though most of the ships seemed to have been used defensively (against pirates and the like) and not offensive in nature.

[SunkenCiv]

:') The Thallasocracy is a modern myth that originated in Britain, where Arthur Evans' work on Knossos and the Minoans is still close to gospel. Naturally it also plays well in Greece.

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Posted on 12/25/2004 7:32:09 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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[Little Bill]

I got interested in Minoa after seeing seeing some of the art. The common conception, at the time, was that people who were as artisticly sensitive as the Minoans were a peaceful and unwarlike nation given to love and pastulli oil.

It got worse. Marja Gumbas started her Mother Goddess BS about that time and I felt that we Indo European thugs and oppressors of womyn were being given a bad rap, so I started looking closer.

It is my opinion that the civilization of the Minoans was probably similar to that of Pylos in the way it operated. To me there seems to be many similarity's based on the archeology.