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 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 Meriones, the charioteer of Idomeneus in the Trojan War. ""To Deucalion were born Idomeneus and Crete and a bastard son Molus."" ""Minos’ sons, they say, were Deucalion and Molus, and to Deucalion was born Idomeneus and to Molus was born Meriones. These two joined with Agamemnon in the expedition against Ilium with ninety ships, and when they had returned in safety