Anonymous ID: 6fd32a May 17, 2019, 1:12 a.m. No.6519629   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9630

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The name poppy goddess is used often for a large female figurine discovered in a sanctuary of the Post-palace period (LM III, 1400–1100 BC) at Gazi, Crete. It now is in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum. The terracotta figurine has raised hands and seeds of opium poppies on her head,[1] and is believed to represent a Minoan goddess.

 

In this period, Mycenean influence particularly on art was strong over the island, showing that Crete had become little more than a province of the Mycenean world after the Mycenean invasion in 1450 BC. Minoan pottery figurines were found in public sanctuaries, not only in palace-sanctuaries, as is usual in earlier periods.[1] Clay figurines of the goddess with raised hands also were found in the shrine of double axes in Knossos, in Gournia, in Myrtos,[2] and also in the sanctuaries of Gortys and Prinias.[1] On the heads of the figures there are various religious symbols, such as horns of consecration, diadems, birds, and the seeds of opium poppies. The female figure known popularly as the poppy goddess is perhaps a representation of the goddess as the bringer of sleep or death.[1]

 

The figurines found at Gazi, which are larger than any previously produced on Minoan Crete, are rendered in an extremely stylized manner. The bodies are rigid, the skirts simple cylinders, and the poses stereotyped.

 

 

 

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