Allegorically it does make some sense though. The Minoans were so evil that everyone remotely associated with the civilization fled and erased everything about the civilization during the bronze age collapse, so all we had left was an ancient myth of the Greeks about an evil civilization and now some ruins.
If the anthropological evidence that the Minoans practiced human sacrifice and dominated the region and demanded people be given up as sacrifices from other people living under their thumbs, that's universally considered evil enough that that sort of civilization tends to get ganged up on by other civilization, and the people of that civilization didn't carry the tenets of the civilization either. Contrast with the Indian civilization which despite being conquered or subjugated by other peoples many times over the millennia, have such a strong culture that ultimately the region's culture has survived.
Another example from ancient history would be the Assyrians, who were so brutal everyone in the region ganged up on them and erased the civilization.
A more contemporary example would be fascism and national socialism, both of which were wiped out because the rest of the world wasn't comfortable with their antisocial ideologies and actions.
It's similar in one respect to the old testament "sins of the father" stuff. People say "That's so unfair! Why should children be punished for the sins of their parents!" but we can show that it's empirically true today. The impact your parents have on you is so powerful it can predict certain outcomes with a 90% certainty. Whether it's fair or not, the behavior of parents defines the children.
Life isn't fair. If we assume that religions are descriptive first and foremost, then they must include parts that are unfair because of that. Otherwise you quickly end up with the paradox from Christianity where "if we have an all loving, all knowing, all powerful God, why does He let evil exist?" and people twist themselves into knots explaining it, but there's a reason Christianity still contains the old testament -- both sets of lessons can be true at the same time, where the universe will wipe you out if you're sinful, but the universe is beautiful and is miraculously set up for humanity to succeed and we need to engage in positive practices like forgiveness to survive as people and as a culture.
(SJ, is there any morning you can put together a post that isn't a wall of text about shit nobody asked about?)
If the anthropological evidence that the Minoans practiced human sacrifice and dominated the region and demanded people be given up as sacrifices from other people living under their thumbs, that's universally considered evil enough that that sort of civilization tends to get ganged up on by other civilization, and the people of that civilization didn't carry the tenets of the civilization either. Contrast with the Indian civilization which despite being conquered or subjugated by other peoples many times over the millennia, have such a strong culture that ultimately the region's culture has survived.
Another example from ancient history would be the Assyrians, who were so brutal everyone in the region ganged up on them and erased the civilization.
A more contemporary example would be fascism and national socialism, both of which were wiped out because the rest of the world wasn't comfortable with their antisocial ideologies and actions.
It's similar in one respect to the old testament "sins of the father" stuff. People say "That's so unfair! Why should children be punished for the sins of their parents!" but we can show that it's empirically true today. The impact your parents have on you is so powerful it can predict certain outcomes with a 90% certainty. Whether it's fair or not, the behavior of parents defines the children.
Life isn't fair. If we assume that religions are descriptive first and foremost, then they must include parts that are unfair because of that. Otherwise you quickly end up with the paradox from Christianity where "if we have an all loving, all knowing, all powerful God, why does He let evil exist?" and people twist themselves into knots explaining it, but there's a reason Christianity still contains the old testament -- both sets of lessons can be true at the same time, where the universe will wipe you out if you're sinful, but the universe is beautiful and is miraculously set up for humanity to succeed and we need to engage in positive practices like forgiveness to survive as people and as a culture.
(SJ, is there any morning you can put together a post that isn't a wall of text about shit nobody asked about?)
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