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Santorini medicine in Bronze Age


"santorini culture " Boeotian amphora

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 ...

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