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       This house wall painting is the most complete object you can see in the Prehistoric Museum of Thera...

All those who thought women discovered lipsticks ,makeup, and jewelry to attract Men, will be surprised by

 this house frescoes...More than a century ago, when Sir A. Evans saw the first Minoan female picture in Crete, call her the ”Parisian”. After 35 years of excavations in Thera, all  female frescoes were found painted with lipstick, few with makeup, all wearing different   jewelry than the others...                                               

      S. Marinatos understood this house frescoes as of religious interest, so today it should be called the house where the priestesses were getting ready for the rituals. To verify this opinion from the house iconography

we focus on two pictures:

        1] The important fresco of “PANCRATIUM MARITIMUM “*

        2]The blue stars referring to a river bellow...

   The  size of PM fresco is to picture its importance, even today, still being used by the Bushmen  for their rituals, as a sacred Plant...The bushmen raised their heads, cut the bubble and passed it  over their naked skulls. It is considered to be cardio-tonic and hallucinogenic...Its religious importance seems to be prehistoric,

and it  expanded to Africa...

        This evidence from African tribal rituals, probably familiar to the Therans** , could explain the raised heads of all young worshippers in the frescoes...

       The blue color being used for the raised heads, one way or an other, is related to the river to witch

the blue starts refer...The blue color is the religion reference to life giving water*** ...

    The cross-looking stars or the star looking crosses, symbols of   the  unknown Cosmos, are made by

 the same material we are made: water**** ...The cross-looking star is related to Venus, since from the earth  Venus is the brightest star after the sun and the moon...Those three celestial bodies, basically religious aspects for all Mediterranean and Mesopotamian cultures, show the universality of the human mind...Venus being visible before or after the sun, during sunrise or sunset, is the primordial divinity [HATHOR], mother of the sun [PHARAOH]...Goddess of life and death, the light or the dark, the central spirit of all later religions of life*****


* "KWASI" is the name of this plant in the local dialect of the “BUSHMEN” from Botswana S Africa

**Sector A  "the African" picture is an evidence of connection between Africa and Thera in the prehistoric era...

*** The crocus veil dawn, rose from the river of the ocean, light will bring to the Immortals and to Men..

.Homer 800 bC

****Maria Gimbutas explains meander as  un  high Paleolithic metaphor for water..Homer  called “ DIKTINA”, the goddess of the amniotic fluid...”MOGOSTOKOS” &” DIKTINA “ were Homeric names

of Potnia., the Minoan goddess name in linear B.

*****TARROT card “ IMPERATRIX “pictures all symbols in History about Venus: stars, river, heart, bird, sun ,moon, cross, beauty, felinity.. The tarrot cards were invented to  represent symbols of three different cultures: Christianity, Judaism, Islam.

Santorini ancient Greece is related with all Mediterranean cultures....

 

 

 

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