The twilit subterranean chambers carried undertones of the cave sanctuaries.

After the virtual abandonment of the Knossos Labyrinth in 1380 BC, that power retreated underground, to the cave sanctuaries.

A magical cave sanctuary 2km west of town.

Kamares Ware was named after finds in the cave sanctuary at Kamares on Mt. Ida in 1890.

These include a pre-Hellenic cave sanctuary near a Temple of Demeter, over which the Church of San Biagio was built.

Also the cave sanctuaries seem to be abandoned and art becomes rarer and mostly done on portable objects, such as peebles or tools.

Also there is a possible feminine anthopomorph and about thirty rectangular tectiform symbols, positioned in the way that seems to be usual in this type of cave sanctuary:

They "were made to be given as offerings in the cave sanctuaries on Crete.

The cave sanctuary of Khao Luang is 5km north of Phetchaburi.

The duty of these coordinators is to survey cave "sanctuaries", as named by the municipal government, and report changes in the habitat and hunting of bats.