Santorini ancient Greece:Running Spiral (Xeste 3 Ground Floor)

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             The spirals, an ancient symbol of eternity, infinity, endlessness, appears often enough in the wall paintings of Thera,

 on friezes, on ships, on altars but also on pottery found in Akrotiri...

    They are suggested to represent the “chain of life”,

 birth-death-regeneration without beginning   or ending. But this frieze with the running spiral  is more important because it can show us why and how  we use this symbol

.If we remove the blue star with the two extensions left and right* , we recognize

 the “bull” symbol,        santorini ancient greece registered symbol 

 thus Maria Gimbutas and Dorothy Cameron correctly explained it to be associated with the life giving organ,

not only of the Matriarchal concept, but synonymous of human nature in every religion:

 

                                                          the uterus and the fallopian tubes with the ovaries...

                                                                             santorini ancient greece  symbolisation origine

  For some of you , probably surprised about the medical knowledge of prehistoric societies, the CD-ROM of the Louver Museum leave no doubt about prehistoric medicine** .

            Under this consideration, the Indo-European Thunder god Zeus, replaces the prehistoric Goddess, holding  her “bull’  symbol***  as,

                                                                        Moses destroyed the golden Calf,

                                                                         santorini ancient greece realations with later religion

    but continued  the only existential religion mankind has always to preserve: Fertility, Life, Nature...

            Even today people living in

                Africa **** ,

                                                                                  santorini ancient greece relation with actual religions in africa    

                                                                     still use the “bull” in rituals  related in life.

         One very interesting version of the bull symbol is the credence of the Hunja*****  ,

        about earthquakes being related with the horns that are supposed to hold the earth...

       The obvious relation with the Minoan mythology can help us identify the role of The Minotaur ,

so the fact that the Hunja is also today a Matriarchal society, is  related with the possible destination  

of all prehistoric Greek tribal populations...


* Copyright  design from Porphyra fresco collection n2and7

** The oldest clinic was found in Egypt 5ooo years ago, the first physician was a priest ,and was a maternity in honor of Hathor [Aphrodite - Venus]

*** "The language of the goddess" : Zeus. Maria Gimbutas

****The young mother wares the bull helmet to celebrate the new born child

*****Santorini ancient Greece relation with origin of tribe in Pakistan, probably descendents of the Alexander period 330 bC