FAH206H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Palekastro, Kouros, Peak Sanctuaries
Document Summary
Cults and crises on minoan crete. religion serve to unite cultural, social systems into unity; using a common myth and ritual behavior that is seen as holy. Minoan = widely accepted major societal adjustment in positive and negative sense: construction of first palaces, destruction + reconstruction, eruption of santorini volcano, destruction of second palaces, final destruction of knossos. Major religious changes result from major social changes (very little evidence to literature to show what caused these changes) Commensality = act of eating and drinking together: high ritualistic practice w/ music, dance, processions, etc. Knossian creation: earlier phase of bronze age = female == important role. She is ideological, symbolic and spiritual repr. of knossian power: immediately after the eruption of the volcano -> male iconography beome more evident in gold rings, etc. Cult of the young male reflected by the palaikastro kouros seems to combine the anthropomorphic divinity of male worshipper in a peak sanctuary and cave cult.
