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	Amnisos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amnisos (also Amnissos, "House of the Lilies") is the archaeological site of an ancient Minoan villa on Crete.
		The villa was built in LMIA and also destroyed by fire during LMIA.
		Amnisos received its popular nickname, "The House of Lilies", from frescoes on the second floor that depicted red and white lilies, mint, iris and papyrus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amnisos (125 words)

	Greek Mythology: AMNISUS AMNISOS River God of Crete Island, Greece ( Caeratus Kairatos )
		AMNISOS was a River-God of the island of Krete, in the Greek Aegean.
		The Amnisos River had its headwaters on the slopes of Mount Ida in central Krete.
		Attendant Nymphai have gathered at the source of Amnisos or flocked in from the glens and upland springs to follow her; and fawning beasts whimper in homage and tremble as she passes by." - Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.879
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosAmnisos.html (214 words)

	Ilithyia
		She was always the daughter of Zeus and Hera, but was sometimes said to come from Hyperborea, to the north of Greece, in order to aid Leto in giving birth to Artemis and Apollo, and other times she was born in Amnisos[?] on Crete.
		Caves were believed to be sacred to her (perhaps a reference to the birth canal) and offerings to her have been found at caves in Amnisos[?] and Inatos[?].
		In Amnisos, a stalagmite in one cave was probably an icon of Ilithyia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Eleuthia.html (258 words)

	Eileithyia
		In the second case Eileithyia was born in a Cretan cave at Amnisos.
		The goddess is mentioned in Linear script B from Knossos as Eleuthia, which is a dialect form of her name, variously written in Greek language.(2) The offerings of different sorts found from her caves at Amnisos and at Inatos confirm that her cult was very popular in Crete.
		One stalagmite in Amnisos cave was perhaps treated as an aniconic religious image of the goddess.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/e/eileithyia.html (347 words)

	Ilithyia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		According to Homer, there were several called Eileithyiai while Hesiod and Pausanias always claimed there was only one, known as Ilithyia.
		She was especially worshipped in Crete, in the cities Lato and Eleuthernia.
		While the record of her worship on mainland Greece is spotty at best, kourotrophos (small, terracotta figures) depicted an immortal nurse who took care of divine infants.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/i/il/ilithyia.html (271 words)

	Amnisos - Crete - Heraklion - Greece - CreteHolidays -
		Amnisos - Crete - Heraklion - Greece - CreteHolidays -
		Ancient Amnisos where a minoan building was located.
		It is known as the Mansion of Amnisos murals - it is about the famous murals with the lilies.
	www.creteholidays.gr /amnisos.html (187 words)

	Bronze Age Aegean Harboursides — The Thera Foundation
		As with Amnisos, the Relative Sea Level must have been considerably lower then than now, since again Minoan walls are submerged in the immediate area.
		As at Amnisos, during Minoan times there was probably a sandy spit or tombolo connecting the land to a rocky islet which is now about a metre above sea level, but was at least 4.00 m above sea level in LM I and large enough to provide ships with some shelter (Fig.
		Furthermore, the situation of the partially submerged building is quite analogous with that already described here at Nirou Khani and Amnisos to the west, or Mochlos to the east along the same northern shore of Crete, strengthening the argument that the building is indeed Minoan.
	www.therafoundation.org /articles/technology/bronzeageaegeanharboursides (6259 words)

	Ilithyia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Vase-painters illustrating the birth of Athena from Zeus' head may show two assisting Eileithyiai, with their hands raised in the epiphany gesture.
		The cave of Eileithyia near Amnisos, the harbor of Knossos, which the Odyssey (xix.198) mentions in connection with her cult, was accounted the birthplace of Eileithyia.
		Caves were believed to be sacred to her (perhaps a reference to the birth canal).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ilithyia (779 words)

	AMNISOS - HERAKLION - IRAKLION - CRETE - 4holidays -
		The care of Elitheia, the goddess of childbirth, was discovered at the end of the 19th cent.
		Also known as the care of Nymphs, it is 1 km to the south of Amnisos.
		B.C. A rectangular altar is situated in the center of the cave, around two stalagmites that look like human figures.
	www.4holidays.gr /greece_crete_heraklion_prefecture_amnisos.html (208 words)

	Minoan Culture
		Karaitos is an alternate for Amnisos; Karaitos/Amnisos is the "river-god" of the Amnisos River of Crete.
		The Amnisiades (from Amnisos / Karaitos, i.e., of the principle river of Crete by which the Palace of Knossos was built) are the nymphs that attend Artemis, Her famous companions, helpers, and playmates:
		Attendant Nymphai have gathered at the source of Amnisos or flocked in from the glens and upland springs to follow her; and fawning beasts whimper in homage and tremble as she passes by.” –Argonautica 3.879f
	www.goddessmystic.com /PathActivities/MatricentricCultures/crete-culture.shtml (1897 words)

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		Theseus embarked in Amnisos when he came to kill Minotaurus.
		The word Amnisos is the first word that was deciphered in Linear B. the city was ruined in 1500 BC by the waves that the upheaval of Thera volcano caused.
		Myrinos, who was epic and lyric poet, was from Amnisos.
	www.xeniosdias.com /en/history.htm (306 words)

	April 26, 1952
		It would be a wonderful thing if one could sit down on the hill at Knossos and know just what the names of all the surroundings towns and villages were in LM; because I’m sure some of them must occur in this series.
		I’m still rather intrigued by AMNISOS for a-mi-ni-so, which is the only B group with initial a- and -ni- as 3rd except a-pa-ni and this name too should occur, surely.
		Amnisos is generally spoken of as if it was the port of Knossos, but I gather there was a nearer harbour at the mouth of the valley?
	www.lib.utexas.edu /dlp/pasp/ventris/sample/html-version/042652.html (1025 words)

	Seasonal Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Serpentine was her favorite type of stone, soft green with shiny white chips embedded in it sometimes.
		Most were small rowboats of the fisherfolk from Amnisos, though one larger one, a merchant ship, unfurled its sail, setting out for the open sea.
		Paralyzed, she stood far above the destruction, clinging to the wild hope that Amnisos really had been a toy village; that she did not see real people swept away in a violence of water.
	www.rcgi.org /salon/032004/destiny1.asp (1727 words)

	Ilithyia was the Greek goddess Greek goddess of childbirth and...
		She was always the daughter of Zeus and Hera, but was sometimes said to come from Hyperborea Hyperborea, to the north of Greece, in order to aid Leto Leto in giving birth to Artemis and Apollo Apollo, and other times she was born in Amnisos Amnisos on Crete Crete.
		She was especially worshipped in Crete, in the cities Lato Lato and Eleuthernia Eleuthernia.
		Caves were believed to be sacred to her (perhaps a reference to the birth canal) and offerings to her have been found at caves in Amnisos Amnisos and Inatos Inatos.
	www.biodatabase.de /Ilithyia (335 words)

	Eileithyia
		Also, the name is used in a plural collective sense which reflected the practice of neighborhood women gathering together to help in childbirth.
		A tablet from Knossos records reads, "Amnisos, for Eleuthia, one amphora for honey." The cave at Amnisos, near Knossos, has a sacred stalagmite surrounded by a wall and involving an altar.
		In Sparta there was allegedly a running track at the end of which was a temple to Eileithyia.
	www.themystica.org /mythical-folk/articles/eileithyia.html (139 words)

	ANISTORITON: Archaeology News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Papadopoulos and Imamura estimate the height of the waves to have been about 10 m.
		which it is assumed that can cause damages as the ones revealed by archaeological excavations on the coastal Amnisos minoan site (east of Herakleion).
		Scientists from the Greek National Observatory of Athens, the Japanese Universities of Tokhoku and Naboja and the Turkish University of Ankara will continue their work on tsunami sand deposits in east Mediterranean and hope to announce in the future more detailed results.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/a986.htm (477 words)

	Linear B -- decipherment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Using this idea, he was able to guess at symbols most likely to be vowels.
		He had a guess for what was "a" and what was "ni", so he looked for places in the tablets where these two symbols appeared in the right order.
		With a value for "no" in his chart and a possible value for "so" coming from his Amnisos search, he found a possible match for Knossos.
	math.ucsd.edu /~crypto/Projects/ElizabethSmit/decipherment.html (460 words)

	Minoan Religion
		Eileithyia (Eilithia)-- goddess of childbirth; "...the Eileithyia cave or the “fairy-cave”, as the peasants call it, is located at the slope of the hill [Amnisos, see below].
		The Amnisos Nymphs are Naiades (Naiads), one of six major types of Nymph.
		And we're especially familiar with these because they are the famous woodland companions of Artemis, chosen specifically by Her when Zeus "granted" the rare freedoms She had, as a goddess in Zeus' pantheon.
	www.goddessmystic.com /PathActivities/MatricentricCultures/crete-religion.shtml (2578 words)

	Seasonal Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The meeting was in the guest apartments at the Agronos, on the third floor.
		She ascended the elegant, central marble stairs with a heavy heart, dreading to speak again of what happened at Amnisos.
		“I, uh, I was standing at the top of the cliff stairs, the ones carved into the foothill that leads down to Amnisos and the bay.
	www.rcgi.org /salon/destiny/destiny10.asp (1557 words)

	ANISTORITON: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Marinatos and some other archaeologists have allegedly found in Amnisos and elsewhere are not convincing.
		In addition, if we take into account the dating of some archaeologically stratified finds from the same area (See P. Astrsm in 1), we may deduce with some confidence that the tsunami should have occurred c.
		Analogous deposits lifted by a tsunami over the sea level have been found at other places (Amnisos, Island of Anaphi, coast of Palestine).
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v024.htm (2104 words)

	Karteros \| Heraklion \| Crete \| Holidays in Greece \| On-line tourism and traveling services \| Holidayshop.gr
		Karteros, along with Amnisos, Vathianos Kampos and Kokini Chani, are the most well-organized tourist resorts in the island.
		They always attract big crowds and most people come back every year, impressed with the hospitality, the beautiful beaches and the fresh fish at the picturesque taverns.
		• At the sandy beach of the settlement and at Amnisos.
	www.holidayshop.gr /contentsEn.asp?ElementId=3317 (176 words)

	The Potential for Tsunami Generation in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin and in the Aegean and Ionian Seas in Greece. ...
		There is conclusive evidence that Minoan cities on the north and east coast of the island of Crete were also struck by huge tsunami waves (Marinatos, 1939).
		These included Amnisos, Malia, Niron Chani, Psira, Ghoumia, and Zakros.
		Nothing is definitely known about the height of the Bronze Age tsunami on other Aegean Islands but estimates were made based on field collected data.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /TsunamiPotentialGreece.html (1235 words)

	Cruise Club - Archaeological Discoveries, myths & treasures of ancient world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		We will have a full morning to visit the Heraklion Museum with its wonderful artifacts from the palaces and villas of the region.
		We will also visit the palace of Mallia and Amnisos, mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey as one of the places Odysseus stopped on his way home.
		This morning we will visit the great palace of Knossos where according to tradition Minos conversed with Zeus to obtain the laws of his Kingdom.
	www.cruiseclub.gr /arch/archmyth.htm (497 words)

	THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS: The Goddesses by Sanderson Beck
		Moreover, I fed the men who were with him with barley meal from the public store, and got subscriptions of wine and oxen for them to sacrifice to their heart's content.
		In the same passage he mentions the cave of Eileithyia near Amnisos, the harbor town for nearby Knossos.
		The cave of Eileithyia at Amnisos was first inhabited in the third millennium BC and was a venerable cult-place until the fifth or sixth century CE.
	www.san.beck.org /Eleusis-1.html (7534 words)

	Greece Travel Guide: holidays greece, hotels greece, travel greece crete, mykonos island holidays, rhodes guide, crete ...
		Situated just few kilometers east of Heraklion the municipality of Gouves is a well-developed tourist resort with long sandy beaches, traditional villages and interesting archeological sites.
		West of Gouves you will find the tourist resorts of Kokkini Hani and Amnisos with sandy beaches and remarkable archeological sites and to the east you can visit Crete’s biggest resort Hersonisos.
		About one km inland from the summer resort of Amnisos (about 7 km from Heraklion city) you will find the mysterious cave of Eileithyia.The most important archeological sights of the area are the Minoan villa in Kokkini Hani and the one in Amnisos.
	www.zeus.gr /guide/hotels/360.html (265 words)

	Athena Review, 3,3: Minoan Crete: The Minoan Palace at Petras, Siteia
		BC) finds were made by chance, as new roads were opened up in this isolated part of the island.
		Already in the 1920s and 30s, larger examples had been excavated in central Crete at Vathypetro, Sklavokampos, Amnisos, and Nirou.
		Clearly, the Siteia area was organized in a manner similar to that of other economic and political centers in Neopalatial Minoan Crete, with the notable exception that no palace had as yet come to light.
	www.athenapub.com /11petras.htm (3572 words)

	Amnisos, Accommodation and Hotels in Amnisos, Car hire in Amnisos, Car rental - Crete TOURnet
		Amnisos, Accommodation and Hotels in Amnisos, Car hire in Amnisos, Car rental - Crete TOURnet
		Amnisos is located 7km east of Iraklion on the Iraklion - Agios Nikolaos road.
		This seaside resort town was once the important port for Knossos.
	www.crete.tournet.gr /de/Heraklion/Amnisos-ar-637-en.jsp (118 words)

	A January 1998 tour of Greece and Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		There was an optional four-day extension to visit sites in Crete.
		The additional four-day tour of Crete visited the Museum of Herakleion; Knossos; Gortyn; Phaistos; Ayia Triada; Amnisos; Nirou Khani; Mallia; and Gournia.
		Professor Overbeck will be leading another tour, to Crete and Athens, at the New Year, 2001.
	www.albany.edu /classics/Obt98/obtour98.html (213 words)

	iraklio Crete,Greece
		Perfect conditions for windsurfing, the aficionados meet near the estuaries of Almyros river, very convenient to wash out your board after.
		You can also head east, after the airport where you’ll find KARTEROS, AMNISOS, TOBROUK and ARINA beaches, at that order.
		All of them very busy, plenty of sports like beach tennis, volley, etc. going on and some tavernas for cool beers.
	stigmes.gr /br/brpages/cretever/iraklBR.htm (1220 words)

	Hiragana Frequency Table
		Now a guess about a word with a number of occurrences, which begins with 08 (a vowel).
		Guess it's an important town in the area: Amnisos.
		Notice one guess carries a HUGE amount of information.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~gawron/crypto/lectures/linearb.html (1284 words)

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