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>Despite the popularity of Greek culture in the West, Greek culture is generally seen as having little importance in Indo-European comparative studies due to the strong influence of pre-Greek and Near Eastern cultures, which outweighs what little Indo-European material there is can be extracted from it

>Y DNA studies show that the Greeks carry some of the oldest Y haplogroups in Europe, in particular the J2 haplogroup (and other J subhaplogroups) and the E haplogroups, which are genetic markers denoting the earliest Neolithic farmers derived from the Near East.

>Minoan, any member of a non-Indo-European people who flourished (c. 3000–c. 1100 BC) on the island of Crete during the Bronze Age

>A 2017 study of the genetic origins of the Minoans showed a strong similarity to modern Greeks, but with some further dilution of early Neolithic ancestry. (meaning modern Greeks are actually more European compared to the ancients). A comparative study of DNA haplogroups of modern Cretan men showed that a male founder group, from Anatolia and the Levant, is shared with the Greeks. (meaning that the Greeks are, at least paternally, derived from those Anatolian/Levantine people who settled in Minoa)

>Gods presumed to be of pre-Greek or Near Eastern origin

>Ἀπόλλων, Apóllōn, Apollo;
>Ἄρης , Ares, Ares;
>Ἄρτεμις, Artemis, Artemis;
>Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós, Asclepius;
>Ἀθήνη, Athḗnē, Athena;
>Ἄτλας, Átlās, Atlas;
>Διόνῡσος , Diónȳsos
>Ποσειδῶν, Poseidôn, Poseidon;
>Δημήτηρ, Dēmḗtēr, Demeter

>inb4 Muh IE Etymology
Of course the Mycenaeans would call these gods words because they spoke a Proto-Greek/IE (Mycenaean Greek) language, damn it. Fucking Krishna (which literally means Black) has an IE etymology, and you really think he's a deity of Indo-Aryan origin because of that? Correlation does not imply causation.