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1. Nikos Kazantzakis's study in Antibes, a photograph taken after his death. “Now the twilight casts its haze upon the hilltops. The shadows have lengthened, the air has filled with the dead. The battle is drawing to a close. Did I win or lose? The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.” (Report to Greco transl. P. Bien, p. 524).
2. Here lies her heart.
3. At Athens Airstation (as it was called at the time). (From the left) Sophocles Venizelos, Eleni N. Kazantzakis, Spyros Theodoropoulos, Pandelis Prevelakis, Georgios Papandreou.
4. Return to the ancestral soil. November 4, 1957.
5. The funereal service at the Metropolitan Church of Saint Minas in Heraklion. November 5, 1957.
6. Four noble daughters of Crete. The funereal service at the Metropolitan Church of Saint Minas in Heraklion. November 5, 1957.
7. Crete in mourning. November 5, 1957.
8. Procession. November 5, 1957.
9. Crete accompanies Her son to his final resting place. November 5, 1957.
10. Nikos Kazantzakis's books, a heavy legacy in the hands of the students of the Pedagogical Academy of Heraklion, follow their author. Leading the procession is his Odyssey. [Title in Greek: Οδύσεια].
11. Nikos Kazantzakis's books, a heavy legacy in the hands of the students of the Pedagogical Academy of Heraklion, follow their author. Leading the procession is his Odyssey. [Title in Greek: Οδύσεια]. November 5, 1957.
12. The Son of Crete in her hands. November 5, 1957.
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13. Eleni. November 5, 1957.
14. Libation. “Such men are not buried by gravediggers” shouted Kapetan Manoussakas while lowering with three other Cretan Captains Nikos Kazantzakis's body in the hallowed grave. November 5, 1957.
15. Libation. November 5, 1957.
16. At the gravesite, honour guard by eight Sons of Crete. November 5, 1957.
17. Guarding the grave of Nikos Kazantzakis, a Son of Crete, with his hand perched on his Cretan knife. (Year of birth on the cross reads 1881, instead of the correct date: 1883.)
18. The grave of Nikos Kazantzakis on Tapia Martinego (on the Venetian Walls of Heraklion) on the next day of his funeral. November 6, 1957.
19. Across the gravesite, Mount Giouchtas, the sleeping ancient Greek God Zeus.
20. In a letter of December 12, 1947 from Paris to his friend Börje Knös in Stockholm, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: 'I fear nothing, I hope for nothing, I am free'* is the phrase I have requested to be engraved on my tombstone. [* the phrases in this sequence]