Talk:Cultural History of Mazes

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History [This is a little dull and probably way to long and fragmented]

Certainly there is certainly more to be said about the cultural history of mazes -- but this is fairly 


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According to Kern, “the earliest depiction of a maze dates from about 1420 CE”.
However, as Espen Aarseth argues, 
Architectural mazes: church mazes, 


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I plan to add this section 
Purposes of Labyrinths and Mazes:

#	Protection: “to protect places of importance in their immediate vicinities” (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).
#	Research: For the study of intelligence in humans or animals [NICE! Mouse in the Maze]
#	Dances patterns
#	Exclusion Ritual
#	Talismans to protect
#	Symbolic mazes:
##	Path a soul takes…
##	Birth, life, death
#       Exclusion ritual:
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.





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Meaning of Ancient mazes and labyrinths.   
Bord turns from the origins of the form to the meaning its creators associated with the drawing.     
She describes “The Path” a sand tracing from west Malekula which represend  the journey that the dead man must travel to the land of the dead.
Significance

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Note, I'm adding the Cultural History of Mazes page to the "maze" category I'm creating (for easier navigation between related pages) --[[User:MarkSample|MarkSample]] 10:44, 6 August 2010 (EDT)