Studies on worship Research Papers (original) (raw)

The author's many years of research has led to two main conclusions: Firstly, in Keros was worshiped a pair of gods, the great Goddess of the earth and the wild beasts, who, depending on the people that arrived to the island, took the... more

The author's many years of research has led to two main conclusions: Firstly, in Keros was worshiped a pair of gods, the great Goddess of the earth and the wild beasts, who, depending on the people that arrived to the island, took the names Ishtar, Semele, Demeter, Artemis Maa, and her associate, who was also mentioned as Attis, Pappas (besides, the highest mountain of Keros is still called so), and Dionysus.
Secondly, after the submersion of the narrow land corridor between Keros and its cape (or the elevation of the sea) due to an earthquake, people who resorted to the island named the cape "Δασκύλλιον" (today Daskalio).
Since 2700 B.C., specialized metals craftsmen were installed, who processed imported raw materials and made tools and objects. Because of their specialty, they needed goat and wild animal skins, animal protein to live on, and protection from god Dionysus (see Κουτελάκης, Θέατρο και μεταλλωρύχοι-μεταλλουργοί / Koutelakis, Theater and Miners - Metallurgists, Athens 2016), whom they continued to worship, as did the previous ones.
The abandonment of Daskalio is probably due to the collapse of the ecosystem, as the amount of fuel for the metallurgical furnaces was huge, and secondly because the population of goats and chamois (Kri-Kri) that lived for centuries in Keros went extinct.