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You may have noticed that the Minoans had something of a breast obsession in their art. This is apparent not just in the many images of topless women, but also in the artwork showing animals suckling their young and in the many teat-shaped conical rhytons (ritual libation pitchers).
What you may not have noticed is that the Minoans put nipples on a lot of their pitchers and jugs, like the one at the top of this post, from Akrotiri. Why the heck would they do that?
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Frequently Asked Question: Was x a real sign/ was x just a dream or a real communication from a god / was x a fiction story idea or a message from a god?
My answer: What you want to do is to confirm (or not) whether you have received a message. That's a yes or no question, which is the simplest type of question to divine for. If you use runes, decide in advance which ones count as yes or no and pull a rune. Or, you can use bird omens.
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Birds of all kinds are a common theme in Minoan art. We find them in natural settings and in ritual art. Some of them probably belong to the iconography of specific Minoan deities. But some of them may point back to the Neolithic Bird Goddess who was worshiped in Anatolia back in the time and place that the Minoans' ancestors came from.
In many cases, the artist depicted the birds with naturalistic realism, to the point that we can identify the specific species. These images include, in order from top to bottom, a wild rock dove, swallows, and red-legged partridges:
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