Nobody knows who this woman or goddess really is though there is much speculation as to her statues and spiritual preferences. They call her the Minoan Snake Goddess of Knossos, Crete from 1600 BCE. When you look at her you see a wide-eye woman with a cat sitting on her head, two serpents, great breasts, good posture and a fantastic dress. She is by far one my favorite statues from antiquity even thought her archetypal attributes are a mystery. Personally as I gaze upon her I see The Summerian Goddess Inanna. She was a dominate Goddess of fertility whose young male consort's annual death and rebirth symbolized the decay and regrowth of vegetation. Her name was changed from region to region and as time past, but the story repeats its self again and again in perhistory religions. Others are reminded of the Egyptian goddess Weret-hekau who was often seen as the cobra rising from the head of the Pharaoh. Her principal tasks were to protect the creator sun god and to act as foster-mother to the pharaohs. Symbolically for me this nameless Goddess represents a time when female spiritual wisdom and serpent magic were revered.

There is much speculation that the Minoans lived in a matrilineal society before Indo-European intruders brought them heavily patriarchal and patrilineal social structures. Though there is a lack of circumstantial evidence to support the ideas of a purely matrarical society. I do however believe there was a time before the sons Abraham began their wars against each other. When a girl had a better chance to rule a kingdom then she dose now.

Our above Goddess appears to come from a time when the patriarch had not yet demonized breasts, snakes, magic and woman. Frankly the whole thing just makes me want to belly dance topless with snakes. All hail the Serpent Breast Lady, I know I do.