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Minoan and religion
Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.
Margot Adler noted how there were many pagan groups whose practices revolved around the inclusion and celebration of male homosexuality, such as the Minoan Brotherhood, a Wiccan group that combines the iconography from ancient Minoan religion with a Wiccan theology and an emphasis on " men-loving-men ", and the eclectic pagan group known as the Radical Faeries.
Besides these similarities, Burkert notifies that up to now we don ’ t know to what extent one can and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenean religion.
:" To what extent one can and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenaean religion is a question which has not yet found a conclusive answer "
Labrys symbolism is found in Minoan, Thracian, and Greek religion, mythology, and art, dating from the Middle Bronze Age onwards, and surviving in the Byzantine Empire.
It may also have absorbed the beliefs and practices of earlier, nearby cultures, such as Minoan religion.
This perspective on the differences between Crete and Mycenaean Greece has remained controversial but has also spurred discussion about Minoan Crete, its religion, the nature of its monarchy and the wider set of relations between Minoan, Mycenaean and later Greek cultures.
An Artemis type deity, a ' Mistress of the Animals ', is often assumed to have existed in prehistorical religion and often referred to as Potnia Theron, with some scholars positing a relationship between Artemis and goddesses depicted in Minoan art and " Potnia Theron has become a generic term for any female associated with animals.
Bull-leaping is thought to have been a key ritual in the religion of the Minoan civilization in Bronze Age Crete.
It was in the form of a mystery religion that the cult of Dionysus evolved, probably in the civilization of Minoan Crete.
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