The Poppy Goddess is the most famous of the Minoan bell jar goddess figurines. But did you know that there are actually dozens of these,...

There's a lot of good Pagan music out there, and a lot of interesting people in the Pagan community. But where do you go to find them?...

Aphrodite was born from the sea-foam off the coast of Cyprus, an island with intimate ties to the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete. What might...

I recently had the interesting experience of someone being upset by some artwork I chose for my Facebook profile picture. The art in...

Learning about the daily lives of ancient people can help us connect with their culture and ultimately, their spirituality as well. Today...

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 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...

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

I wasn't sure what to expect when I first picked up this book and began to read, but I ended up enjoying it more than I expected. The...

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...

My daughter is taking a sociology course that requires her to put in some volunteer time at a local nonprofit organization. She chose...

The ancient Minoan city of Akrotiri, on the island of Santorini (a.k.a. Thera), was home to people of all ages. Among them were girls and...

Goddess spirituality icon Karen Tate has once again turned out a work that's sure to become a standard reference on the bookshelves of a...

I'm like most people: There are things I'm not too keen about when I look in the mirror, things I'd like to change about my body. So I...

It's been an unsettling year. Many people are reeling from the Brexit vote, the American presidential election, the various natural and...

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...

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...