Sunday afternoon, we took the path back from ancient Lissos on Sougia
beach. About seven and a half in the evening just before dark, we reached the
trees where we had the car parked, we left the cameras and the rest of our
stuff in the car, but Mr. George kept his camera, telling us that we always must
be alert and vigilant and that our journey is not over yet...
This quaint seaside village, the ancient Syia, the largest ancient commercial
port of southwest Crete, it was serving mother town of Elyros. According to
tradition, Elyros was founded by Fylakides and Filandrus, sons of Apollo’s and
Akakallis, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. The boys were milked
by a goat and nursed by the hierophant of Tara, the purifier Carmanor. The myth
depicted on coins of Elyros. The ancient cities Hyrtakina, Elyros, Lissos and Tarra,
had set a monetary union. From there evolved a local federation with the
participation of other autonomous communities (Syia, Poikilassos, Kandanos,
Aradin, Anopolis, Phoenix), within the sacred core of Diktynna, Lissos.
