{"product_id":"cretan-snake-goddess-statue","title":"Cretan Snake Goddess Statue","description":"\u003cdiv align=\"justify\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis Cretan Snake Goddess Statue is a decorative reinterpretation of the real faience Snake Goddess figurines found at the Palace of Knossos on Crete from the Minoan civilization, around 1600 BCE, showing a figure holding a snake raised in each hand; exact dimensions aren't listed for this particular piece, so we're keeping size language general rather than inventing numbers our own listing data doesn't include.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis statue is a decorative reinterpretation of the real faience Snake Goddess figurines unearthed at the Palace of Knossos on Crete, made by the Minoan civilization around 1600 BCE, showing a figure holding a snake raised in each hand; genuine archaeologists still debate what the original figures represented, from a household or fertility deity to a priestess performing a ritual role, a real open question this piece does not resolve, and it is offered as a decorative art object paying tribute to that archaeological history, not a claim of religious authenticity, ritual potency, a guaranteed spiritual effect, or endorsement by any living religious community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eWhat this statue reliably delivers is an honest decorative reinterpretation of a genuinely significant archaeological find, rather than a claim to have settled a real scholarly debate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe original faience figurines this piece is inspired by are among the most iconic artifacts of Minoan archaeology, unearthed at the Palace of Knossos and dated to roughly 1600 BCE; they depict a bare-breasted female figure holding a snake in each raised hand, a detail this decorative statue carries forward faithfully. What we won't do is pretend that question is settled just to make for a tidier product description, because it genuinely isn't among real archaeologists. Set alongside our other Greek and Mediterranean pieces, including the Aphrodite Waking Up Statue and Goddess Athena Figurine drawn from Greek myth proper, this statue instead reaches further back to Bronze Age Crete and the Minoan civilization, a distinct culture and era from the later Greek pantheon, making it a fitting piece for a bookshelf, altar, or curio display built around ancient Mediterranean history broadly rather than Greek mythology alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eSee our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/ritual-kits-tools-spell-supplies\" title=\"Ritual Kits \u0026amp; Spell Supplies | Spiritual Tools \u0026amp; Altar Supplies\"\u003eRitual Kits \u0026amp; Spell Supplies collection\u003c\/a\u003e for more altar essentials, and our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/spiritual\" title=\"Spiritual Tools \u0026amp; Supplies\"\u003ewider spiritual tools collection\u003c\/a\u003e for more spiritual home tools.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDisplay the statue indoors on a stable surface, dust it gently with a soft, dry cloth, and handle it carefully since it can chip if dropped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Modern Aromatherapy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44912980001020,"sku":"sku-43968491258100","price":62.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/8900\/1212\/files\/cretan-snake-goddess-statue-front-view.jpg?v=1788692971","url":"https:\/\/modernaromatherapy.com\/products\/cretan-snake-goddess-statue","provider":"Modern Aromatherapy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}