This Cretan olive oil comes of the cultivation area around Mohos in the province Heraklion.
The olive trees as well as the cultivation area are since many generations in the possession of the family Diamantakis, their origin already
in 17. Century lies.
By the personal monitoring it is ensured that between harvest and
pressing only few hours offense, in order not to reduce the quality of
the oil by storage of the olives in bags.
During pressing the olives without each additional effect of warmth
between stones are caught to grind and the oil.
The storage of the oil up to the filling takes place - as at Minoan time
in clay jugs.
Also pressing the olives is personally supervised by
Mr. Diamantakis, in order to avoid each mixture with oil of other
producers, which do not attach importance on biological cultivation.
Over many centuries the history of the olive tree and the olive oil is
connected with the long history of Crete, where before thousands of years
the foundation-stone of the western civilization was put, and which
developed European history. Many the historian mention Crete as homeland of
the olive tree, basely at archaeological finds. It was even written that
originally olive trees already 3000 v. Chr. With Knossos were cultivated. In
centres a place in the palace was the area with the olive press, of where
out by lines the olive oil was filled directly into the large Amphoren, in
order to store it there.
The production took place in organized, commercial mechanisms in the
settlements, the palaces and the temple areas of the rich basic owners, for
the needs of each municipality. To it the olive oil in different form the
subject of the minoan export trade with the Greek mainland and the Cycladen
became parallel.
The number of archaeological finds is large: organic remainders, tools,
mechanisms, documents, blackboards and other one, which confirm the dominant
presence of the olive tree and the olive oil on Crete.
Paul Faure mentions that during the minoan years the farmers of Crete the
olive tree as very importantly regarded, nearly holy, that one could not
only eat the olive fruit, also the oil. The olive oil was also useful, as
application in, and basis flavour material for the hygiene, as pure product
for oblations at holy places, for the medicine and the magic, as lubricant
for tools, as fuel for the daily lighting, for the sports area and to the
embalm of dead ones.
In accordance with the classical cretan mythology, Athena, was born
protection goddess of the olive tree on Crete at the sources of the river
triton and the cultivation culture of the cretan olive tree brought the
Daktylus Herkules on the Peleponnes.
With the conditions of the idolization and protection of the olive tree on
Crete, while all epochs, everyone can understand well that this holy tree on
the island could always survive and the main source of income of the economy
forms.
Surely, this highly gifted tree was already well-known from age with other
peoples, as with the Egyptians and the Palestinian.
Here we remember that the Bible (book of the judges) represents the olive
tree as the most intelligent one of all trees and also plays the leading
role in following history: The trees met once, in order to select their
king! They said to the olive tree: “Become our king and govern us…” But the
olive tree answered: “And I am to leave my oil and the fruit, for which the
Gods and humans worship me, in order to govern… trees…, no, I no king would
like to become…!
These exciting reports remind us of the long history of the olive tree and
its golden fruit, and justify the French researcher and writer Jaques
Lacariere, which mentions.
With a miracle the longevity of the olive tree, which is exactly the same
cultivated, is alike as ever and remained always holy into the today's time…
TREE
IDEA, TREE CREATION OF THE SPIRIT. Tree, which from age for the Greek and until today for us, who remains
fastest and greenest way between the desire of the Gods and humans.
In the old Greece, the Dioskouridis and the Dioklis the characteristics,
Anaxsagoras and Empedoklis praised investigated the historical way,
Aristoteles brought out the olive processing as science, and Solon created
the first law for the protection of the olive tree with the law basis, which
forbade to cases of more than two olive trees in each field during a yearly.
Aristoteles mentioned however that, which falls an improved olive tree, with
which death is punished.
Thus this holy tree with the highly gifted fruit is admired the “symbol for
knowledge, wisdom, abundance, peace, health, Kraft and beauty”, over
thousands of years, and is the living myth of civilizations became, was
supported from legends, traditions, religious God services.
This olive tree, prefers and emphasized, shows up with the today's
confirmation of scientific research as main factor of the health and high
life expectancy.
When the female pioneer of the nourishing research, Ansel of dock, Crete and
the Crete discovered 1957, it that the island inhabitants have an only very
low portion of heart diseases, explained the highest life expectancy in
Europe and proclaimed it in such a way. “There (on Crete) the inhabitants
use little meat and few milk products, but as much olive oil, oh my God! …
That is their only fat for cooking. They admit or pour this it rich on
everything that they serve. “
Thus the oil of the olive, the Elixir of the life, cretan olive oil, main
factor of the healthy nutrition and promoter of the health of the Crete.
Symbol for:
Harmony,
Sincerity,
Trustworthiness and amusement
Despises the superficial
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