Ancient Lissos Mystery

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 a...

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. Views of Lissos Landscape Flora