Jack Dempsey's "Shapes of Minoan Desire" points out that, in pre-historic Minoan art, "erotic attention seems to be displaced from the female body onto just about every other facet of life" (Graeber / Wengrow's summary, 438)
Dempsey: Minoan scenes depict the "ritually induced release from individuality, and an ecstasy of being that is overtly erotic and spiritual at the same time (ek-stasis, 'standing beyond oneself')--a cosmos that both nurtures and ignores the individual, that vibrates with inseparable sexual energies and spiritual epiphanies"
"in Minoan frescoes everything merges"