Anarchistbanjo's World

The Minoan civilization began around 2,000 BCE and ended in volcanic destruction around 1,100 BCE leading the nearby Greek Mycenaean civilization into a dark age. The Minoan civilization was highly advanced and Goddess oriented. It was the only known advanced civilization that was Goddess oriented.

We have already seen that the Goddess oriented Samothrace mysteries were likely in place at the destruction of the Minoan civilization and a survivor of the Goddess religion that in turn influenced Helenic Greek with their Gods and Goddesses. The sacred Samothrace mysteries were taught for almost 1,000 years until they were abandoned around 400 CE.

But there is an interesting link between the Samothrace mysteries and the great library at Alexandria. During the reign of the Ptolemies, a Roman dynasty that ruled Egypt from 304 to 40 BCE, the great library at Alexandria was built and marble was imported to enhance and expand the Temple on Samothrace!

We can definitely see the emergence of two types of initiations, one Goddess oriented and earth based and the other highly mystical and philosophical and based upon spiritual Light or the sun. Is it coincidence that the Druid religion seems to have emerged around 400 BCE? The Druid religion was once considered to have been originally matriarchal and Goddess oriented. Were the Druids the survivors of the destruction of Crete and the Minoan civilization during the pre-Helenic dark ages of Greece? Were they associated with the Samothrace mysteries of the old Gods?

What is certain is that the ancient Druids appeared to have both a strong and vital connection to nature and all living things as well as a highly developed philosophical and spiritual nature. They believed in reincarnation and the otherworld or Summerland. They had the best of both worlds and the Druid religion lasted for almost 1,000 years until it was destroyed after the massacre of the long knives at Stonehenge in 472 CE during the annual Beltaine Festival.

I would hazard a guess that this was the true origin of the Druid religion as survivors of the destruction of the Minoan civilization and was also influenced by the surviving Mycenaean Greek civilization as it fell into a dark age.

The great library at Alexandria was almost a mirror opposite with it’s Neo-Platonic and Hermetic orientation that focused more upon the spiritual than the organic but contained both as well.