Status Updates From Crete and Pre-Hellenic: Myt...

Great, archaeological racism…

Why does a book called "Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe" have a 20+ page long chapter on rural living in Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete but no actual chapters on the myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe.

Boring rambling about the racial types of Crete yet again, more diffusionist theorizing, and talking about how all the goddesses in Greek myth were originally just a manifestation of the Minoan "Mother Goddess"(TM) even if this makes no sense (why exactly, were the maiden goddesses expressions of the big mother goddess who was a "wanton" and characterized by reproduction?). Yawn.

Nearly half of the way through and nothing so far about interpretation - outdated as it may be - on how mythology about Crete related to the Minoan civilization, only outdated scholarship on the "racial makeup" of the paleolithic and neolithic + accounts of the discoveries of Schliemann and Evans, and the same OLD AND TIRED SHIT about how female demons are vague reminisces of the ancient "Great Mother Goddess", geez.

About halfway done....little disappointed with it so far. Guess that is the price for bargin hunting.