01:082:105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Harvest Festival, Minoan Snake Goddess Figurines, Hagia Triada
Document Summary
Karmak reconstruction: lotus and reed columns with reliefs clerestory with windows for ritual space. Musicians are historians, tell stories through sound. Marble curves nicely, only what needs to be sheer is. Bowl & hedgehog are hollow = pitcher. Aminism: everything has a soul (plants, rocks, etc) God is embodied in a being or entity. Story of labyrinth- king minos, has bull, poseidon, minos wife & bull =minotaur athenians get sent every 7 yrs to be food for minotaur, sacrifice bull after 7 yrs, refuses. Lots of sailors, most of sailors/ pirates lived there. Figure of snake goddess or attendant; 1700- 1400 bce, earthenware head & left forearm. Associated with eternity, forever, death & resurrection. Lots of snakes underground sounds like whispers from dead. Rhyton of a bull (reconstruction) found at knossos. Red wine in & comes out throat (substitutionary sacrifice of bull) Found broken near walls, use it then smash it. Marine style lentoid flask from palaikastro height 11 .