Apollonian Music

As god of music, Apollo is often depicted playing the lyre.In Hellenistic times, especially during the 3rd century BCE, as Apollo Helios he became identified among Greeks with Helios, Titan god of the sun, and his sister Artemis similarly equated with Selene, Titan goddess of the moon. Apollo's sister Artemis, who was the Greek goddess of hunting, is identified with Britomartis (Diktynna), the Minoan "Mistress of the animals". According to Greek tradition, ancient Elyros was founded by Fylakides and Filandrus, sons of  Apollo and Akakallis nearby Lissos. 

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Lissos Landscape's Flora

Lissos Landscape's Flora

Between some thousand year old but proud trees, wrinkled by the winds of centuries of frenzy winds digging cavities on the rocks of the small bay of St. Kirikos, are some ancient olive trees swinging around themselves, which is a sign of the direction of high energy flowing.

Many plants live at the area and here below is a picture of a strange one which is called Dracunculus vulgaris, or commonly Snake Weed of Greece or Drakontilia, while its German name is Schlangenwurz. 

It is a plant that smells bad with strange flowers and leaves that were associated by the ancients with snakes representing the privacy of the underworld. Raw or boiled root was used in asthma, a cough, respiratory infections, fractures, and as a diuretic. The red berries of the fruit, leaves, and flowers are poisonous. 

The most famous pharmacologist of antiquity was Dioscorides. He wrote about this plant that heals ulcers, and also that if you drink it with wine it is an appetizing ... for love! The work of Dioscorides, “De Materia Medica” was free from prejudices and superstitions of the time. He had studied more than 500 plants and ranked them according to their therapeutic properties, depending on their action on various diseases of the human body. Until the 16th century the book was the bible of those involved with the Pharmacy. Translated into many languages it was the first book printed after the Holy Bible! The area of Lissos is full of herbs like the wild drakontylia, (dracungulus vulgaris) a plant of Crete which is considered sacred because it unites the worlds of the dead with the living. Its characteristic odor is so intense that you cannot stand it, within several meters. You might suppose that an animal died behind the bushes, but it is the scent of the Snake flower. Reminiscent of lily, only the flower color is violet - purple, while the green stalk has black stripes that remind the body of a zebra. 

Asclepeion Lissos

Asclepeion Lissos

Temple of Asclepius, is built with polygonal system of the classical Hellenistic style was founded the third century b.C.

In the center of the Asclepion floor, lines penetrate straight to one another, forming clockwise and counterclock geometrical forms. 

They develop meander forming isosceles crosses and its external corners are going to drawings at the four directions of the horizon, but unfortunatelly we can see clearly only two of them: a bird looking like a rooster and a mammal reminding an antelope. 

In the center of the cross must have existed a fifth show in the past, but every trace even the outline is shaped off today. At perimeter of the mosaic, Dorian style meanders are shaping vineyard images.

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