ANCIENT CRETE

Ariadne - Most Holy, High Fruitful Mother. Moon Goddess.

Britomartis - Cretan Sweet Girl. Great Goddess of Minoan Crete. Lily was Her flower.

Dictynna - Lawgiving Goddess of Mount Dicte. Her plant was Dittany.

Europa - Full Moon, the Great Goddess as Mother of all Europe. White Moon Cow. Garlanded white bulls were sacrificed to this Lunar Cow Goddess in Crete and Mycenae from a very early date.

Leukippe - White Mare- Horse Goddess.

Minoan Snake Goddess

Pasipha - She Who Shines for All. Cretan Moon Goddess.

Rhea - Aegean Universal Mother, Great Goddess, Pre-Hellenic Great Mother Goddess. Also known as Britomartis, Great Goddess of Bronze Age Crete and the Aegean Islands. Great Mother. She had no consort and ruled supreme before the coming of patriotic Hellenic invaders. Archetypal Triple Goddess. Britomartis, the Sweet Virgin, Dictynna, the Lawgiving Mother and Aegea, the foundress of Aegean civilization. aka Coronis. Pre-Roman Latium knew Her as Rhea Silvia, Rhea of the Woodland, under Whose rule, the Vestal Virgins were neither celibate nuns, nor servants of the state, as they became in later ages. They were choosers and deposers of the early Latin kings, a college of matronae who ruled the rulers and took no husbands. Her children were cared for by Acca Larentia - the Holy Harlot or High Priestess.

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