«Every man, for a minute of his life, is God.»
- Nikos Kazantzakis

Psiloritis is the highest mountain on the Greek island of Crete. According to Greek mythology, Rea gave birth to the god Zeus hidden in Ideon Antron, a cave of this mountain, to avoid Zeus being eaten by Cronos, his father. But already since the late Neolithic, the mountain was considered a sacred place. In the Bronze Age, Ideon Andron is a scenario of frequent rituals and sacrifices, becoming one of the main centers of worship for the Minoan civilization. And the cave continues witnessing different deities along centuries till nowadays. In the heart of the mountain, near Ideon Antron, is located the village of Anogeia. Its inhabitants live anchored in the double isolation that means a high mountain inside an island. Time has stopped for a community and a mountain wrapped in legends. The Minoans were conceiving the cave as a gateway between this world and others: a gateway to a spiritual world that was otherwise inaccessible. Based on this gateway concept, this essay transits, between reality and fiction, into territories inhabited by faith, mythology and Cretan popular culture. And the mountain acquires a special weight as the chosen scenario because the projection of the myths of the past continues to exert a strong influence on a community as isolated as the current one in Anogeia. "The Cave" is a symbolic journey towards the ancestral, to the roots of ancient Greece, the cradle of Western thought, whose legacy is key to understand the relationship between man and his beliefs over millions of years.