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"Santorini culture" Priestess fresco

West House 

             West house offers the unique opportunity to appreciate the genius idea of Spyridon Marinatos to name this women´s fresco : Priestess ...

            Many evidence of the religious , cultural but also medical identity of this symbolic image are painted together :

  1. A snake on her head : A symbol of medicine up to nowadays​

  2. A Celtic cross as an earring : The letter Theta of early greek alphabet but also of the linear A and B , the most important symbol of the fertility goddess , were in greek Theos = god !

  3. The razed blue head : A young priestess probably using pancratium maritimum for the ceremonies to communicate with the world of spirits during initiation process ....

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