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168 i Flora Unveiled The second question concerns the identities of the shaft grave rulers themselves. Were they indigenous chie ...
169 169 (a) (b) Figure 6.19 Mycenaean pin and ring seals. A. Gold pin from shaft graves of Mycenae depicting a sacred tree emerg ...
170 i Flora Unveiled acolyte grasping a sacred plant (left). In the gold ring seal from Mycenae in Figure 6.19C, a goddess sits ...
171 171 (a) (b) Figure 6.20 Mycenaean images of women with plants. A. Fresco of goddess or priestess holding clusters of wheat, ...
172 i Flora Unveiled been adversely affected, although the extent of the impact is unclear. Mainland Greece, located farther awa ...
Mystic Plants and Nature Goddesses j 173 173 173 cheeks, not though his mother and his father died, not though men slew his brot ...
1 74 i Flora Unveiled Although Homer never cites poppies as the source of nepenthe pharmakon (literally, “no- pain drug”), its e ...
Mystic Plants and Nature Goddesses j 175 175 175 with the end of the Bronze Age triggered a decline in the population on the mai ...
Table 6.1 Chronology of the Aegean Bronze and Iron Ages Date (bce) Period Crete Mainland Greece 7000– 2600 Neolithic Permanent f ...
Mystic Plants and Nature Goddesses j 177 177 177 Morgan, L. (1988), The Miniature Wall Paintings of Thera: A Study in Aegean Cu ...
178 i Flora Unveiled According to the Red Data Book of Rare and Threatened Plants of Greece (Hellenic Botanical Society, 2009), ...
Mystic Plants and Nature Goddesses j 179 179 179 Castleden, R. (1990), Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete. Routledge. The verb u ...
180 i Flora Unveiled Note the association of the feminine with the carrying of “vessels” and “baskets,” as well as the botanical ...
Mystic Plants and Nature Goddesses j 181 181 181 Historia Plantarum, ix 9.16.8 Kritikos and Papadaki, The history of the poppy ...
i 182 7 The “Plantheon” of Greek Mythology Thus far, we have seen that it was an agricultural innovation in Mesopotamia— the art ...
The “Plantheon” j 183 183 183 the Odyssey.^1 The mainland population was divided into independent mini- states, each of which wa ...
184 i Flora Unveiled of myths also provides important insights into Greek ideas about gender and a wide array of other topics. F ...
The “Plantheon” j 185 185 185 case of Zeus, whose role as the sky- god can be traced to Indo- European origins, has continu- ity ...
186 i Flora Unveiled thought to place the individual in direct contact with the divine, and initiates swore never to reveal the ...
The “Plantheon” j 187 187 187 be identified with the Greek Demeter.^10 Both were mother goddesses, and their devotees achieved t ...
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