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Greece: Goddesses

For thousands of years, our ancestors conceived of the divine as a Great Mother.
Echoes of this can be heard at all of Greece's sacred sites, and evidence abounds in the museums.

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Cretan
snake goddess

Cretan poppy goddess

Left, Cretan dove goddess
(we heard doves cooing
in the Skotino cave).
Right, figure in the
Cycladic Museum in Athens


Pitcher where bounty
pours from her breasts;
typical neolithic image
from Crete

Couldn't resist
photographing this one

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