SNAKE WORSHIPPERS
SOME XFAY DISCOVERIES EXCAVATIONS IN CRETE (Aust. and N.Z. Cahle) Athens, April 7. The citizens of Knossos, an. ancient cit y of Crete, flourishing' -1000 years before Christ, wurshipp »d snakes. A discovery in recent excavations described by Sir Arthur Evans, the noted archaeologist, w.a« a. room in a. private house of the Mino-an period containing 40 vessels and other objects devoted to the domestic snake cult. A snake table was arranged to accommodate four diners with snake tubes attached to little cups to shelter tlio reptiles. The worship of the snake goddess as the lady of the underworld, a<ud the controller of earthquakes involved ceremonies with vi peri.no snakes of a venomous V bar net or.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 8
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