>>20606006The name "Hephaistos" (Mycenaean Apaitijo) contains possibly the same root as the Greek name of a city on Crete, "Phaistos" (Myc. Paito). We know that Phaistos is an originally Minoan word because the Egyptian records mention it in this form at a time when Mycenaeans haven't reached Crete yet.
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/tacitus/tacitus-on-the-jews/>The Jews are said to have been refugees from the island of Crete who settled in the remotest corner of Libya in the days when, according to the story, Saturn was driven from his throne by the aggression of Jupiter. This is a deduction from the name Judaei by which they became known: the word is to be regarded as a barbarous lengthening of Idaei, the name of the people dwelling around the famous Mount Ida in Crete. A few authorities hold that in the reign of Isis the surplus population of Egypt was evacuated to neighboring lands under the leadership of Hierosolymus and JudasWho was the Saturn of Crete? The Bull of Minos/Minotaur, whose priestess-wife/sister was the same as Dionysus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariadne>In Greek mythology, Ariadne (/ˌæriˈædni/; Greek: Ἀριάδνη; Latin: Ariadne) was a Cretan princess, the daughter of King Minos of Crete. There are different variations of Ariadne's myth, but she is known for helping Theseus escape from the Minotaur and being abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. There, Dionysus saw Ariadne sleeping, fell in love with her, and later married her. Many versions of the myth recount Dionysus throwing Ariadne's jeweled crown into the sky to create a constellation, the Corona Borealis 