持蛇女神（Snake goddess）.doc

持蛇女神（Snake goddess） From Crete to Mycenae in the Aegean Sea area, peoples entertainment activities and religious rites. In Minoan people there, goddess worship is very common in Crete unearthed seal often portrait of the goddess. A Connor Sos on clay seals engraved with a goddess. She was standing majestically on the top of the hill, both sides have Shuangshi dutifully guarding a temple, behind, before a believer stand. She is wearing a typical woman palace Minos wrinkle skirt, wearing tights, breasts exposed. The goddess head sometimes without headgear, sometimes wearing a crown or headdress. In some portraits, the goddess also appeared at the same time with a God, and God is short, is obviously a supporting role, that supreme position in the minds of the goddess of minos. Until the decline of the Minoan civilization, the Minoan people of the goddess worship is still very popular. Many small local temples still in worship they venerate the goddess. However, with the decline of the Minoan civilization, the goddess has gradually lost its former glory. The goddess can dominate the earth, and dominate the skies; both dominate agriculture and hunting and yield, dominate the success or failure of navigation. In some of the shrine in Crete and to see the seal on the snake goddess image can be everywhere. The Boston Art Museum in one of the worlds art collections proud, was unearthed from Crete a statue is only 16 centimeters tall to snake goddess statue. The goddess wearing high crown, wearing a wide open chest gown, with plump breasts look solemn, his hands holding a head to hold the snake. The goddess of the body, dress is made of ivory, snake, belts, armbands, dress decorative stripes is made of gold foil. Some people say she is the goddess of the waiter , also called priestess , she even said she was dressed as the goddess queen. As for why she was holding a snake, but also Public opinions are divergent. A statement that the snake is land or ancestral spirits, holding