Herakleion Museum, Crete, Greece. 1600 B.C.

This figurine represents an agricultural fertility Goddess or her
Priestess. The original was found in a storage room in the Palace of
Knossos, Crete. She is a votive offering and not a cult figure and
therefore, probably represents a Priestess who is perhaps a princess
of the palace. Although she is dressed in the garb of her deity, a
Cretan Earth Mother, she is a personification of Earth from which
all life springs and returns. She carries the snakes, symbols of
death and rebirth. Crouching on her crown is a lion cub, usually
associated with royal houses. In her crown are poppy pods, indicating
the use of opium in her worship.

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