Talk:Cultural History of Mazes
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Architectural mazes: church mazes, | Architectural mazes: church mazes, | ||
Purposes of Labyrinths and Mazes: | Purposes of Labyrinths and Mazes: | ||
| − | 1) Protection: “to protect places of importance in their immediate vicinities” (13) | + | # Protection: “to protect places of importance in their immediate vicinities” (13) |
| − | 2) Games: “Swedish peasants living in Finland used to use the stone mazes in that country for running games in which the young men would run through them to a girl at the centre” or alternatively “ a stone coffer grave at the center” (13). | + | # Games: “Swedish peasants living in Finland used to use the stone mazes in that country for running games in which the young men would run through them to a girl at the centre” or alternatively “ a stone coffer grave at the center” (13). |
| − | 3) Research: For the study of intelligence in humans or animals [NICE! Mouse in the Maze] | + | # Research: For the study of intelligence in humans or animals [NICE! Mouse in the Maze] |
| − | 4) Dances patterns | + | # Dances patterns |
| − | a. Exclusion Ritual | + | # Exclusion Ritual |
| − | 5) Talismans to protect | + | # Talismans to protect |
| − | 6) Symbolic mazes: | + | # Symbolic mazes: |
| − | a. Path a soul takes… | + | ## Path a soul takes… |
| − | b. Birth, life, death | + | ## Birth, life, death |
| − | Exclusion ritual: | + | # Exclusion ritual: |
W. F. Jackson Knight. | W. F. Jackson Knight. | ||
“The nine men’s morris is fill’d up with mud; and the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable” -- A mid Summer night’s Dream. | “The nine men’s morris is fill’d up with mud; and the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable” -- A mid Summer night’s Dream. | ||
