Minoan Genius, the Glossary
The Minoan Genius is a legendary creature that was common in the Minoan art of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization in ancient Crete.[1]
Table of Contents
16 relations: Ancient Near East, Childbirth, Daimon, Griffin, Hagia Triada Sarcophagus, Hippopotamus, History of Crete, Legendary creature, Libation, Lion, Minoan art, Minoan civilization, Minoan religion, Minoan seals, Mycenaean Greece, Taweret.
- 2nd-millennium BC introductions
- 2nd-millennium BC works
- Daimons
- Hippopotamuses
- Libation
- Minoan art
- Mythological lions
Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Childbirth
Childbirth, also known as labour, parturition and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.
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Daimon
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy. Minoan Genius and daimon are daimons.
Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; Late and Medieval Latin: gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs. Minoan Genius and griffin are Greek legendary creatures and mythological hybrids.
Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus is a late Minoan -long limestone sarcophagus, dated to around 1400 BC or some decades later, excavated from a chamber tomb at Hagia Triada, Crete in 1903 and now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (AMH) in Crete, Greece. Minoan Genius and Hagia Triada Sarcophagus are Minoan art.
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Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus (hippopotamuses or hippopotami; Hippopotamus amphibius), also shortened to hippo (hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. Minoan Genius and hippopotamus are Hippopotamuses.
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History of Crete
The history of Crete goes back to the 7th millennium BC, preceding the ancient Minoan civilization by more than four millennia.
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Legendary creature
A legendary creature (also called a mythical or mythological creature) is a type of fantasy entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before modernity.
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Libation
A libation is a ritual pouring of a liquid as an offering to a deity or spirit, or in memory of the dead.
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Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.
Minoan art
Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC.
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Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Minoan religion
Minoan religion was the religion of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization of Crete.
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Minoan seals
Minoan seals are impression seals in the form of carved gemstones and similar pieces in metal, ivory and other materials produced in the Minoan civilization. Minoan Genius and Minoan seals are Minoan art.
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Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.
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Taweret
In Ancient Egyptian religion, Taweret (tꜣ-wrt, also spelled Taurt, Tuat, Tuart, Ta-weret, Tawaret, Twert and Taueret, and in translit, Thoeris, Taouris and Toeris) is the protective goddess of childbirth and fertility. Minoan Genius and Taweret are Hippopotamuses.
See also
2nd-millennium BC introductions
- Chariot
- Chariot burial
- Elko point
- Flip-flops
- Fountain
- Great king
- King of Kings
- Linear A
- Linear B
- Minoan Genius
- Spoke
- Steel
- Sword
- Tyrian purple
2nd-millennium BC works
- Alaca Höyük bronze standards
- Arkalochori Axe
- Bronze Age literature
- Da He ding
- Frankleben hoard
- Goblet (17th - 16th centuries BC, Vanadzor)
- Jotunheimen shoe
- Khonsuemheb and the Ghost
- Minoan Genius
- Philistine Bichrome ware
- Shi zun
- The Immortality of Writers
- Trialeti Chalice
- Trundholm sun chariot
Daimons
- Agathodaemon
- Aloadae
- Archon (Gnosticism)
- Cacodemon
- Ceuthonymus
- Corus (mythology)
- Daimon
- Daimonic
- Darrhon
- Dysnomia (deity)
- Epiales
- Epiphron
- Eudaemon (mythology)
- Eurynomos (daemon)
- Homados
- Hybris (mythology)
- Ioke (mythology)
- Koalemos
- Kydoimos
- Lamia
- Machai
- Meilichios
- Melisseus
- Minoan Genius
- Nomos (mythology)
- Oxylus
- Palioxis
- Philotes
- Phthisis (mythology)
- Polemos
- Proioxis
- Rabisu
- Shedim
- Soter (daimon)
- Soteria (mythology)
- Thrasos
- Trophonius
- Tuchulcha
- Zelus
Hippopotamuses
- Allenton hippopotamus
- American Hippo bill
- Behemoth
- Hexaprotodon
- Hippopotamidae
- Hippopotamus
- Hippopotamus (genus)
- Hippopotamuses in Colombia
- Hipposudoric acid
- Minoan Genius
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Saotherium
- Taweret
Libation
- Carchesium (container)
- Drink offering
- Ikupasuy
- Libation
- Minoan Genius
- Omiki
- Oresteia
- Patera
- Rhyton
- Samaveda
- Soma (drink)
Minoan art
- Aegina Treasure
- Arkalochori Axe
- Gold grave goods at Grave Circles A and B
- Grave Circle A, Mycenae
- Hagia Triada Sarcophagus
- Harvester Vase
- Horns of Consecration
- Labrys
- Lentoid
- Malia Pendant
- Minoan Bull-leaper
- Minoan Genius
- Minoan Moulds of Palaikastro
- Minoan art
- Minoan pottery
- Minoan sarcophagus (Hanover)
- Minoan seals
- Minoan snake goddess figurines
- Nilotic landscape
- Palaikastro Kouros
- Poppy goddess
- Pylos Combat Agate
- Stirrup jar
- Tell el-Dab'a
- Theseus Ring
- Vaphio
- Velchanos
- Warfare in Minoan Art
Mythological lions
- Atalanta
- Barong (mythology)
- Brunswick Lion
- Chimera (mythology)
- Chinese guardian lions
- Chinese lions
- Dawon
- Hieracosphinx
- Komainu
- Lampago
- Leo (astrology)
- Lion and Sun
- Lion of Al-lāt
- Lion of Babylon
- Lion of Cithaeron
- Lion of Judah
- Lion of Saint Mark
- Manticore
- Manussiha
- Merlion
- Minoan Genius
- Nemean lion
- Nian
- Pixiu
- Sea-lion
- Shisa
- Simhamukha
- Sinhabahu
- Snow Lion
- Sphinx
- Sphinxes
- Ugallu
- Winged lion
- Yali (mythology)