Archaeological and architectural evidence, including frescoes, shrines, statues, pillars and column have contributed significantly to our understanding of Minoan religion. However, much of the evidence is missing or incomplete and thus, the knowledge of Minoan religion is limited. Nonetheless, historians have been able to develop an understanding of some aspects of Minoan religion through a variety of archaeological and architectural evidence such as the Aghia Triadha sarcophagus, cult furniture, seals, statues, skeletons, frescoes and pillars and columns.
Bronze Age societies held a common belief that supernatural forces controlled weather and fertility and that if gifts or offerings were presented, these forces would be generous to humans by minimising earthquakes and storms and maintaining the fertility of earth. …
