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

Modern Minoan Paganism isn't a rigid tradition with a bunch of pre-set rules, but there are guidelines you can use to help you set up an...

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...

I'm hard at work on a second edition of Ancient Spellcraft. As I'm revising and updating the spells, I thought I'd share a few with you...

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...

Modern Minoan Paganism is a partly reconstructed spiritual path, inspired by the archaeological remains of the Minoans of ancient Crete....

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...

Most historical fiction revolves around well-known figures in well-documented times. People of the Sea breaks that mold, and several...

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...

It's an overused term, but it applies here: This is an epic tale. Author J.P. Jamin has woven together two disparate times and cultures...

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...

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...