SNAKE WORSHIP.
RECENT DISCOVERIES. REPTILE AS A GODDESS. LONDON, April 1. Tho citizens of Ivnossos, an ancient city of Crete, which flourished 3000 years hefore Christ, really did see snakes, says the Athens correspondent of the Times. Tho discovery in recent oxcavations described by Sir Arthur Evans, a noted archaeologist, was a room in a private house of tho Minoan period, containing 40 vessels and other objects devoted io tho cult of the domestic snake.
A snako tabic was arranged to accommodate four diners with snako tubes attached to little cups to shelter the reptiles. The worship of the snake goddess as the lady of tho underworld, and the controller of earthquakes involved ceremonies with viperine snakes of a venomous character.
Knossos was the centre of tho Minoan civilisation disclosed by the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans. Tho extensive and luxurious Great Palace, it is suggested, may, by its confusing multiplicity of rooms, have given rise to tho story of tho Labyrinth.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 9
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