By Maryanna Gabriel
“… in walking over the ancient grounds of Knossos so superabundantly rich, so embroiled with life and death, that I find myself unable to analyze it clearly…” Nikos Kazantzakis
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| Zeus sleeping on Mount Juktas. |
In case you were wondering, I have just found out that Zeus is sleeping on a mountain overlooking the Palace of Knossos in Crete.
I learned about this famous place long ago in an art history class and have always been curious about it. It was a neolithic settlement that evolved into all the hallmarks of civilization with agriculture, trade, writing, culture, and wonderful myth. We were lucky to get in when the morn was cool before tour groups thickened and swelled.
I stood amid the cypress and pine and tried to sense the ancients. Not with much luck, I’m afraid. Later, we were entreated to some of the archaeological finds within the Heraklion Museum. The later Minoans who lived in the palace were playful with their art and often depicted whimsical sea themes.
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| Photo credit: Peter Levesque |
“Now looking through the slanting light of the morning window toward the mountain presence of everything that can be…” David Whyte