Legends


Caves are frequent settings for sagas and legends. This already begins with the Greek sagas, such as the cave on Crete where Zeus grew up. Likewise, caves are found in fairy tales and legends from other cultures. Most of these stories, however, have no connection to a specific cave, as they simply provide too little information about the cave to identify it. Therefore, today such a connection can be postulated all the better. So it is not surprising that nowadays two caves on Crete island are Zeus caves, and the cave guides of various other caves stiffly claim that actually their cave would be the right one.