It’s a challenge to figure out what the ancient Minoans believed and practiced in their religion because we can’t read anything they wrote. They were a literate culture, to be sure. They had both a hieroglyphic script and a syllabary. But we can’t read either one of them. There are clues, though.
The Cretan syllabary is commonly known as Linear A. It was used to write the native language of the ancient Minoans, which may have survived the collapse of Minoan civilization in the second millennium BCE. There's a tantalizing possibility that Eteocretan, which is attested as late as the 3rd century BCE, is either the native Minoan language or a direct descendant of it. Languages do change over time - a brief glance at any Shakespeare play will demonstrate that point. But so far, linguists haven't had a lot of luck connecting the two.
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Wouldn't it be ironic if "from the East" was originally "too the East" and the Minoan Linear A turns out to be a variant of Basque -
Stranger things have happened! However, DNA testing on the human remains from several of the Minoan cemeteries shows that they are
