Talk:Potnia Theron

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Although I don't have time to add to this article, I would like to mention that Nanno Marinatos, an academic expert on Minoan religion, has fairly well proved that the Minoans had no Mistress of Animals. The Mistress of Animals was a later occurrence in the ancient Aegean/Mediterranean, was usually portrayed as dominating animals, and was often portrayed totally naked. She was a later phenomenon, as Marinatos proves in her latest book, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion (London: Routledge Classical Monograph, 2000). The fact that "Potnia" is a Mycenaean word makes me think that it was brought in by the Mcyeneans after 1450 BCE, and that it might have nothing to do with pre-1450 BCE Minoan religion.

Also, I don't know what's happened on this site, but I am going to erase the only comment here at the moment, which has some fairly ugly and obscene language in it. Athana 23:51, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

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