The Temple of Bacchus photo copyrighted by: Brian McMorrow The Temple of Bacchus, however, is based on the worship of Dionysus, a Greek god which can be traced to Minoan Crete. This would mean that it's a temple integrating worship of two important gods, one earlier and one more recent, rather than an integration of one local and one foreign god. Its symbolic decoration shows that it was dedicated to the same agricultural gods as the great temple, but the prevalence of bacchic symbols in the interior probably indicates instead the practice of a salvational mystery religion.
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