A few of the words quoted (in the ancient Cretan or Eteocretan vocabulary) are shared with the Indo-Iranian or Aryan group of Indo-European languages.

Raymond A. Brown, Pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetical sources, A. M. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1985

The bull that transported Agenor's daughter into the island of Crete is the celestial bull mentioned in the Zend-Avesta. The Persians used to pray him 'as being the sacred bull who makes the grass grow and from who comes the semen of fertility kept by the moon'.

G.C. Bolanach, Précis de l'histoire de Crète, Librairie internationale, Paris, 1869

The bull-leaping ritual (was) a ceremony that was itself central to the Minoan belief-system.

Rodney Castleden, Minoans : Life in Bronze Age Crete, Routledge, London and New-York, 1997

<Bull's head rhyton, Knossos, Bull's head sanctuary

V Bull-leaping fresco, Knossos, East wing