Aegean culture

Some of these stories were possibly inherited from the pre-Greek Aegean cultures.

The raised arms in this image and the earlier one of the bell-shaped woman derive from the Aegean culture, imported into Cyprus.

Examples of ornaments with the symmetry group pgg in the art of Egypt and the Aegean cultures.

Fermented honey, an entheogen that was the gift of the Goddess, preceded the knowledge of wine in Aegean culture.

The idea of such a creature circulated between the Cypriot and the Aegean cultures from about the 11th century B.C.

All of these starkly modeled objects are Cycladic except three, related works from Aegean cultures or Sardinia.

Along with the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the Cycladic people are counted among the three major Aegean cultures.

Other new galleries focus on Bronze Age Aegean culture, ancient Cyprus and Canada's aboriginal societies.

The bee, found in Ancient Near East and Aegean cultures, was believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld.

An aspect of the compromise religious settlement, similar to the other such mythic adjustments throughout Aegean culture, can be read in the later Phrygian King Gordias' adoption "with Cybele" of Midas.

In the Bronze Age, about 2800-1100 BC, despite cultural interchange by way of trade with the contemporaneous civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Aegean cultures developed their own highly distinctive styles.

In contrast, Early Bronze Age remains on the island align it with the Aegean culture of the Cyclades and Sporades, to the south; at Skala Sotiros for example, a small settlement was encircled by a strongly built defensive wall.

The vast majority of the figurines of the Hamangia culture have cylindrical phallus-shaped heads without facial features, although some, particularly of the Aegean culture, had phallic sculptural pieces with phallic heads with a pinched nose and slitty eyes.

There have now been recognized in the collections at Cairo, Florence, London, Paris and Bologna several Egyptian imitations of the Aegean style which can be set off against the many debts which the centres of Aegean culture owed to Egypt.

It is impossible to assess the spiritual crisis in Aegean culture's relations with the sea's dangers and the capacity of its divinities that must have been engendered by the tsunamis that accompanied the volcanic explosion and collapse of Thera, ca. 1650 - 1600 BCE.