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Miller notes that this labyrinth is not a "puzzle." Nonetheless, it appears on coins, walls, and other ancient surfaces including some graffiti scratched on a pillar in Pompeii. | Miller notes that this labyrinth is not a "puzzle." Nonetheless, it appears on coins, walls, and other ancient surfaces including some graffiti scratched on a pillar in Pompeii. | ||
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| − | So while the location or shape of this mythical maze becomes a grail quest, the labyrinth becomes the icon of the story of the maze and the two concepts become entangled. Mazes and labyrinths become places of beastial horror, puzzles that require the collusion of paramours. Mazes become elevated into the pantheon of heroic challenges, literally the stuff of legends. Without a doubt, this mythological status has fueled the search for physical mazes and labyrinths from antiquity to the present. | ||
Other Egyptian Labyrinths date back to 3400 BCE and a labyrinth in the tomb of King Perabsen of the Second Dynasty. | Other Egyptian Labyrinths date back to 3400 BCE and a labyrinth in the tomb of King Perabsen of the Second Dynasty. | ||
In her book, Mazes and Labyrinths of the World, Janet Bord examines appearances of maze in other parts of the globe. For example, she mentions the “long barrows, megalyths, camps and henges of Britain and north-west Europe” as signs that these sorts of patterns, labyrinthine or mazelike, were “not in the first instance diffuse outward from an original birthplace, but developed independently in more than one area” (10). | In her book, Mazes and Labyrinths of the World, Janet Bord examines appearances of maze in other parts of the globe. For example, she mentions the “long barrows, megalyths, camps and henges of Britain and north-west Europe” as signs that these sorts of patterns, labyrinthine or mazelike, were “not in the first instance diffuse outward from an original birthplace, but developed independently in more than one area” (10). | ||
The search for the antecedent to the physical mazes perhaps is the wrong path to pursue. The history of mazes should not start with the earliest mention or depiction of mazes but with the formulation of walled architecture or social spaces with intersecting passages… Furthermore cave structures, for example, the paths modeled in Adventure, offer naturally occurring mazes (more on that in a moment) | The search for the antecedent to the physical mazes perhaps is the wrong path to pursue. The history of mazes should not start with the earliest mention or depiction of mazes but with the formulation of walled architecture or social spaces with intersecting passages… Furthermore cave structures, for example, the paths modeled in Adventure, offer naturally occurring mazes (more on that in a moment) | ||
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| + | So while the location or shape of this mythical maze becomes a grail quest, the labyrinth becomes the icon of the story of the maze and the two concepts become entangled. Mazes and labyrinths become places of beastial horror, puzzles that require the collusion of paramours. Mazes become elevated into the pantheon of heroic challenges, literally the stuff of legends. Without a doubt, this mythological status has fueled the search for physical mazes and labyrinths from antiquity to the present. | ||
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| + | 10 PRINT... hides no minotaur in its center. But the Cretan Labyrinth and the search for the mazes of antiquity present mazes as the challenges of heroes. Mastering that maze requires a clever hero with an enamored helper. 10-Print was part of Ariadne's string and in that maze-like output novice programmers no doubt hear the echo of the minotaur's roar. | ||
Mazes and Labyrinths, however, are not associated only with their physical structures or two-dimensional forms; They can also be patterns of physical movements. In other words, pathways. Dance executions of mazes have been and continue to be performed as areas, such as Italy, Corfu, Munich, Upper Bavaria. There is the Geranos (Crane) dance performed by Theseus performed on Delos. | Mazes and Labyrinths, however, are not associated only with their physical structures or two-dimensional forms; They can also be patterns of physical movements. In other words, pathways. Dance executions of mazes have been and continue to be performed as areas, such as Italy, Corfu, Munich, Upper Bavaria. There is the Geranos (Crane) dance performed by Theseus performed on Delos. | ||
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===Mazes in Dance=== | ===Mazes in Dance=== | ||
