Santorini medicine in Bronze Age
We think today that at 9th century B.C , Greek religion was the dodekatheism right ?
Wrong !
This Boeotian Amphora evidence is showing the fertility goddess with a fish on the womb and a heart shaped leave , probably of Ivy, as head ...
Why ?
The most reasonable answer comes from the ritual of Eleusinian Mysteries , were the initiated ,was wearing an ivy crown on his head , after the ritual , were kykeon was given to him ....
If there is no doubt that kykeon should have an hallucinogenic action , ivy must be taken to relieve headaches and this is why the wall paintings of Thera has a unique value for medicine, since this information, is related with Sector B evidence ...