Greek mythology mythology to the indigenous pre-Greek societies: Crete, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes and Orchomenus. Historians of religion were fascinated by a number of apparently ancient configurations of myth connected with Crete (the god as bull, Zeus and Europa, Pasiphaë who yields to the bull and gives birth to the Minotaur, etc.). Martin P. Nilsson asserts, based on the representations and general function of the gods, that a lot of Minoan gods and religious conceptions were fused in the Mycenaean religion. and concluded that all great classical Greek myths were tied to Mycenaean centres and anchored in prehistoric times. Nevertheless, according to Burkert,
Molus of Crete to their fatherland they died and were accorded a notable burial and immortal honours. And the Cretans point out their tomb at Cnosus, which bears the following inscription:""Behold Idomeneus the Cnosian’s tomb, and by his side am I, Meriones, the son of Molus."" ""Meriones, son of Molus and Melphis, from Crete, with 40 ships." [Catalogue of ships for the Trojan War]" Molus of Crete In Greek mythology, the name Molus (; Ancient Greek: Μῶλος "Molos" means "toil and moil") was the illegitimate son of Deucalion, son of Minos, king of Crete. He was the father, by Melphis or Euippe, of