Ancient History/Greece/Minoan Civilization. The location of the island of Crete within modern Greece. The Minoans were a Bronze Age civilization that flourished on the Greek Aegean island of Crete from around 3000 to 1100 BCE.
The book describes Arachne as '...the greatest weaver in the worldâher fate's the proof of it. She had the bad luck to defeat the goddess Athena in a weaving contest. Athena was a sore loser, and Arachne is now a spider, creating only for Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, by special arrangement.
Minoan Goddess with Snakes. The faience figurine identified as Snake Goddess was discovered in 1903 by Arthur Evans in the Temple Repositories of the Knossos palace in the island of Crete in Greece.Photo of the original idol (1600 BC), actually exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Herakleion, Crete, in Greece.he fertility symbol, often mentioned as well as Mother Goddess, is a symbol that is common in many prehistoric, stone age religions. This belief of Mother Goddess, suppressed by Christianity, emerges again in the 18th century.