From the Old Palace of Knossos a model of the so-called "Dove Shrine Deposit" shows three pillars with capitals and beams, on which three doves are sitting. Two doves are incised in a stone vessel used as an offering table in Phaistos and some doves are pictured also sitting on the double axes at a sacrifice scene on the sarcophagus from Hagia Triada. Finally, the doves with the other sacred symbols are surrounding the clay figurines with upraised hands and cylinder-shaped bodies from the Late Minoan civic and rural shrines from Gortyn, Gournia, Knossos and Karphi. Some of these figurines with the birds sitting on their head or perching near of their body are called as a representation of the Dove Goddess. The doves are interpreted as an emblem of a celestial goddess and are a symbol of her heavenly power, contradictory to a snake, which has been regarded as an underworld aspect of the goddess and a symbol of her earthly power. But mainly in the Late Minoan period the sacerdotal symbols are mixed as the ritual objects and figurines, discovered from the shrines, are proving. The models of birds were found on the same places together with the snake tubes. One of the figurines from the shrine at Gortys is represented with a bird flying close to her cheek, while she is holding the snakes in her hands.