. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 378. Painted Sea-shells from Floor of Shrine. gold or paint the lily, but in this case, at any rate, the process was harmonized with Nature. r i. • r 1 i. • This custom of strewing the floors and altar ledges of their little shrineswith sea-shells and pebbles clearly marks the religion of a people longaccustomed to look towards the sea as a principal source of livelihood. Itappears indeed to go back in Crete to a very remote epoch. As alrea
. The palace of Minos : a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos . Fig. 378. Painted Sea-shells from Floor of Shrine. gold or paint the lily, but in this case, at any rate, the process was harmonized with Nature. r i. • r 1 i. • This custom of strewing the floors and altar ledges of their little shrineswith sea-shells and pebbles clearly marks the religion of a people longaccustomed to look towards the sea as a principal source of livelihood. Itappears indeed to go back in Crete to a very remote epoch. As alreadynoted ^ a primitive clay female idol was found in a Neohthic deposit at> See above p M, and cf. Man. Ant., xix, squatting type (cf. p. 48, above, F>g. 13, 3).1008 p 151 seqq The clay image (p. IS^, A J> shell had been flattened at theHg. \) seems to have belonged to the early bottom to be used as a mimature cup (F,g. 11).. Ill: THE SNAKE GODDESS AND RELICS 521 Phaestos in company with miniature cups of clay and numerous peduncuhisshells. The refined practice of lining the floor and altar of our PalaceShrine with delicately painted shells may itself have been handed downfrom a time when these fruits of the sea formed an important part of thediet of the inhabitants and would thus result from conditions analogous tothose of the Kitchenmidden folk of Northern strands. The marine aspect of the cult also comes out among the contents of Flyingthe Temple Repositories in a series of very beautiful faience objects in Panei.
Size: 1355px × 1845px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1921
