Like many ancient cultures, the Minoans spent a lot of time looking at the night sky and calculating the movements of the stars and...

When I first saw a photo of the famous Minoan Bull Leaper fresco in my high school art history textbook, I never imagined that, years...

I do a lot of stuff relating to the Minoans of ancient Crete. It's not all in one place, on one website, so I thought I'd list it all...

I freely admit to reading anything I can get my hands on about the ancient Minoans, but when I picked up this one, I wasn't sure what to...

It's not just Christian who get tripped up by the temptation to take myths literally. Pagans have been doing it for millennia! Don't...

Ariadne has a thread, and that's a clue to her nature as a goddess of Fate. Today on the Minoan Path blog I'm exploring that aspect of...

Today on the Minoan Path blog, I'm considering some possibilities for the intriguing figure-eight shields found in Minoan art. What if...

The world is so big, we like to divide it up into manageable segments, sections we can get our heads around and maybe understand. The...

Saffron was sacred to the ancient Minoans. It's a very special flower: The fact that it blooms in the autumn sets it apart from the other...

Offerings are a major part of Modern Minoan Paganism, but it's important to understand that each deity has offerings they like and...

There is no Maiden-Mother-Crone triplicity among the Minoan goddesses, but that doesn't mean we can't find some meaningful threefold...

Epiphany isn't a word you typically hear in relation to modern religions. It means the appearance of the deity - god or goddess - to the...

One reason the modern world can feel unfulfilling is that it's based entirely in the mundane, the material. But if we allow ourselves to...

Some time ago I offered a few thoughts about the sacral scarf. Since then several of us in Ariadne's Tribe have worked with the sacral...

In Minoan mythology, the infant Dionysus is born at the Winter Solstice to the great mother goddess Rhea. We find his name, plus the...

What did the Minoans call their gods and goddesses? Who were the ones they devoted themselves to, made offerings to, gave sacrifices to?...

Modern Minoan Paganism may not be a reconstructionist tradition, but we do need something stable on which to build our practice. One...

Here in the northern hemisphere we're heading toward Samhain, a time to honor the ancestors. The Minoans didn't celebrate Samhain - their...

The Minoans were great artists. They depicted birds and other animals so accurately that we can identify the specific species in the...

In case you hadn't noticed, the Minoans of ancient Crete are very much my thing. I'm a bit obsessed, having written two books and created...