I'm creating a list of the oldest Religious Structures/Temples in the archeological record and the oldest surviving Religious Texts/Manuscripts. So far my internet surfing has established the oldest surviving text/manuscript of the Greek Religion is a copy of the Iliad called Venetus A dating to circa 900 CE and the oldest existing Structure of the Greek Religion is the ruins of the Temple of Hera dated to circa 590 CE...
(Please correct me if I'm wrong)
But to my question. Are the Minoans lumped in with the Greeks? Specifically do they share a religion? From my understanding the Minoans predate the Greeks and the city of Knossos is the oldest city in Europe dating to circa 7,000 BCE and its famed Palace dates to circa 1,900 BCE. It's also known for it's Linear A and Linear B ...wether they are or are not apart of the Greek Religion, would the palace and Linear A/B be considered "religious"?
Short answer is no. My understanding is that their language is not very well understood, but it's not Greek. Religious culture seems quite distinct as well. The Mycenaeans that conquered them on the other hand are Greek, albeit they too share a great many cultural differences with 'classical' Greeks of later centuries.
If you're looking into the origins of classical Greek religion, better to move east to Anatolia, I would think, not south to Crete.