The house of the Ladies
This unique in human culture evidence of women painted with lip stick , make up and jewellery at the 17B.C leaves no doubt that the Thera´s society was matrilineal but also matriarchal if we only compare this fact with the image of naked men painted nearby them in xeste 3 ....
Some useful conclusions may be taken out of this house evidence :
1.Those women should be priestesses while preparing themselves for ceremonies ....
2.The clothing similarities , their presence in other houses frescoes were initiating younger priestess with razed heads painted in blue , in crocus gathering but mainly
3. the presence of a huge Pancratium Maritimum , painted in this house, leave no doubt that the main occupation of those women was crocus gathering as a mostly important part of their religious or social role in the community .....