SNAKE WORSHIP
RECENT DISCOVERIES REPTILE AS A GODDESS. ■ ! LONDON, April 1. The citizens of Knossos, an ancient city of Crete, which flourished 3000 years before Christ, really did see snakes, says the Athens correspondent of The Times. The discovery in recent excavations described by Sir Arthur Evans, a noted archaeologist, was a room in a private house of the Minoan period, containing 40 vessels and other objects devoted to the cult of the domestic snake. A snake table was arranged to accommodate four diners with snake tubes .attached to little cups to shelter the reptiles. The worship of the snake goddess as the lady of the underworld, and the controller of earthquakes, involved ceremonies with viperine snakes of a venomous character. Knossos was the centre of the Minoan civilisation disclosed by the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans. The extensive and luxurious Great Palace, it is suggested, may, by its confusing multiplicity of rooms, have given rise to the story of the Labyrinth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21307, 11 April 1931, Page 12
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