This is one of the most important frescoes of the prehistoric city[ excavated area]...Marinatos called it “the young priestess" . We have three different reasons

to verify this  opinion:1]  The raised  head , 2]the snake on her head ,

3] the earring she is wearing.

      The raised head, associated with the presence of Pancratium Maritimum*

in the House of the Ladies, is typical all the young worshippers , as fitting this religious function of the fresco. The snake is painted also on the head of the Goddess...

   If we accept that the first clinic in history was a maternity one**, and up to today,

through Hippocrates and  Asklepios we still use the snake as a symbol of medicine,

why its origin not can be expressed by the priestess of the fertility goddess?

      For everyone who recognize the Celtic cross shape in this earring***,

the fact that Marinatos called her

"priestess" could seems to be obvious...

        From Paleolithic evidence in Har Karkom at Sinai, as a symbol

of the Egyptian goddess Hathor, to the Babylonian Isthar, but mainly

 as a syllable of linear A and linear B, the cross, or the cross in a circle,

seems to be following the traces of saffron and shamanism,

as the image of the priestess with the snake in her head clearly shows…

    To prove  the religious function of this symbol we only have to look in the first Greek alphabet the only symbol did not change shape from area to area of the different Antiquity Numismatics at 700 bC when appears at first in ancient Greece****

       The letter theta, as a cross in a circle , is a previous form of the letter we use today

 to write “Theos= god”, so as religious symbol, it had been used from prehistory,

to express the eternal value of fertility, since all religions have as task to preserve life….

      With that in mind, is easy to understand the reasons of using prehistoric symbols,

in all Monotheistic religions: the star of David has been found in Babylon and Minoan Crete, the cross in Paleolithic Sinai, and Sin in the local dialect means moon…