The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels
I feel I have lingered too long on what was the immense metamorphosis that occurred during the late Neolithic and early bronze age periods in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and I have been eager and impatient to move on to the so called “gilt” age of ancient Greece; however it appears that the road to Greece was significantly paved with the salt water of the multitudinous sea lanes that traveled to and from the Mediterranean island of Crete.
There is evidence that homonids traveled to Crete as early as 130,000 BC. Possibly that is how the ancestors of Loewenmensch found their way, on wooden rafts, to Crete, then to the European mainland, and eventually to southern Germany, where they lived in the caves, hunted and gathered, and where, ultimately, Loewenmensch and Hohle Fels met and married.
The Cretan, or more popularly Minoan, culture, which began in 7th century BC, but evolved more fully in 3000BC, was a significant link between Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Mycenae, later called Greece. They were the center of trade across the Mediterranean, from the Euphrates to Spain and from Egypt to Italy, and became the first significant European civilization, surviving from about 2500 to 1200BC.
They created art, tools, and a language script called Linear A, which to this date has not been deciphered. Linear A led to the Mycenean script, Linear B, which was the forerunner of the eventual classical Greek alphabet. Though it was a socially layered society, it was possibly matriarchal, and a primarily peaceful one until its decline instigated, primarily, by several periods of natural disaster.
