Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization by Richard Heath

Author:Richard Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2018-02-05T05:00:00+00:00

Figure 6.4. Part of a miniature fresco of Akrotiri showing Minoan boats, from before the Santorini explosion.

It appears therefore that the Minoan trading ships might not have had the business model of “trade with the strong and pillage the weak” associated with the later Vikings. And, as the Minoans didn’t stray into the Atlantic, their nautical skills and equipment would have been less developed. Thus, a superior vessel arrived in the Mediterranean from the Baltic. We know that by the period of Ramasses the Great (ca. 1279– 1213 B.C.E.) there were problems on the coast of Egypt from “sea people” of a fierce disposition, wearing helmets with hornsu (see fig. 6.5). These northern sea people merged with the Canaanites to become the loathed Philistines aka Phoenicians.

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