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Echoes of Fickle Gods: Safe Haven on the Island of Syros |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Stephen Osmond |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,647 Words, 16,518 Characters |
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Kiranos became the legendary first citizen of the Aegean island of Syros (locals usually say Syra). His origins remain unknown, but his character is still remembered. Humble, wise, and virtuous, the cave dweller gained such great respect from the island's other occupants that he was recognized as their ruler and king.
Whether Kiranos was the actual first inhabitant of the island or not, the acknowledged founder of one of Greece's oldest pre-Hellenic communities was evidently different from any and all others. Whatever the truth behind the myth, archaeology places the first inhabitation of the island at the end of the Neolithic era and beginning of the Bronze Age (approximately 4000 b.c.).
Between the years 2800 and 2300 b.c., a thriving civilization of fishermen, farmers, and cattle...
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...ique. Even within a culture or faith, no two of us are called to the same experience--except perhaps in the creation of a family--spiritually or circumstantially. Indeed, it seems that fate is often wildly unjust and capricious. On Syros, briefly, I somehow touched both particular and universal facets of the ongoing human experience and for a moment shared safe haven from life's fickle storms.
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