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The "ring of Minos". Gold signet ring from Knossos (LM IA). Floating person. Source: Evans 1935: Supplementary Plate LXV.
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…Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks…. ―Wassily Kandinsky (Selbstbetrachtungen, Dokumente. Berlin: 1913: 89)
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... grows on a shrine or a planter (LM IB), 39 a seal from Makrygialos (LM I) with a tree at the place where the mast would have been -according to Wedde, next to an ikrion or a shrine ( figure 6). 40 Additionally, the Ring of Minos with a tree on a similar construction, but not into the ship ( figure 2; figure 7), etc. ...