II Snake Goddess

What is considered unnamable among other peoples is available for all who want to hear in Crete.
Diodorus Siculus, Library, ca. 90 – 20 BCE

We do not know the name of this goddess, although we might guess Ariadne or Britomartis. We have no written record of her worship or her functions. She may have been a form of the chthonic Maiden, like Persephone, who passed through death into power and immortality. Or she may have been a priestess at the moment of transfiguration into Goddess. As it is, she must speak to us without words, through her staring eyes, her bared breasts, and her brandishing of sacred serpents.

Image source: Minoan Faïence Figurine, ca. 1600 BCE