This was the starting point for what came to be a theme for Sacred Number concerning ancient myths regarding landscape features and the transition of culture that occured to make Classical Greece.
It was an adage of the classical world (i.e. Greek onwards) that "All Cretans are Liars" because they said that: Not only was Zeus born on Crete, but also he died leaving Mount Yiochtas. The new immortal, and male, head of the sky gods could not die, whilst the old adjunct to the Goddess cultures, the year godling, as the vegetative god of the Year, did just that, only to be reborn.
It seems no coincidence that the Minoan matriarchal society flourished 'til 1500BC (end of Stonehenge cycle) on Crete and must have generated this tradition that needed to be filtered out as patrilineage began to displace the Goddess, that had emerged from paleolithic times, seeing the creation as female in character.
