According to this theory, the larger statues were not grave goods but were set up for communal worship, whether as representations of the supernatural or as votive figures. The symbolic detail told their story of great economy and clarity very well. They organized the picture space into registers that show the symoblic ascent from plants and animals to the goddess and that mirror the physical ascent of a ziggurat from level to level. Tombs became the most architecturally sophisticated monuments of the entire Aegean period. The cone like structure has the appearance of pyramids - pointed at the top.
Minoan architecture is less massive and more open.
The Palace Complex of Knossos, Crete is a good example. In later Greek legend the Knossos palace was called the Labyrinth, meaning the House of the Double Axes because double-ax motifs were used in it as architectural decoration. Because the layout of the complex was so dauntingly complicated, the word Labyrinth came to mean a maze. Warehouse spaces of the new palace were organized around a large central courtyard, with entrances at the four corners. From the central courtyard, a few steps led down into the Throne Room to the west, and a grand staircase on the east side descended to the Hall of the Double Axes, an unusually grand example of a Minoan hall.