Minoan Culture Analysis

New knowledge about the Minoan culture has been revealed in the Island of Crete. In the video, Sandy McGillivray believes that the Knossos palace, the largest Cretan palace, was more of a temple rather than a palace to harness the power of the sun. He realized that each of the doorways aligns with the rising sun on different key days of the year, and believes that it is a solar temple, like the Egyptians who worshipped the sun, moon, and stars. In the palace, there were many potteries and fresco paintings of nature showing their value and importance of the marine life. Minoans used crocus flowers which produced saffron. Saffron was documented on fresco paintings, and it emphasized a portrait of their landscapes. Examples of these are the Spring Fresco (Figure 4-9), Kamares Ware vase (Figure 4-11) and Marine-style octopus flask (Figure 4-12). Minoans were so different from the ancient Greeks. Their written language, known as the Linear
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has killed over 32,000 people; it was big, and for the Minoans to have a population of only 5,000 people, it vanished the whole Minoan population. Like Sandy, I respect and admire the Minoans. Though I have never experienced a tsunami, I personal have fears of them. To hear how the Minoans died or to even think about the tsunami, plus dark clouds of ashes which you cannot see, is devastating. Minoan civilization was swallowed by the sea. 100 years later after the tsunami disaster, a small statue was found in Palaikastro. Although some of the body pieces were missing, the statue was very much valuable. This statue represented a powerful symbol of the Minoan culture, and somebody has vandalized it. They wanted to destroy what the statue stood for. I truly understand why someone would do this to the statue. As Synolakis said, the Minoans loved and worshipped the sea, and the sea turned against them. I would have a sense of betray with the