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	Labyrinths - Crystalinks
		Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek ("Pelasgian") origin absorbed by classical Greek, and is apparently related to labrys, a word for the archaic iconic "double axe", with inthos connoting "place" (as in "Corinth").
		While the classical labyrinth was known throughout the Roman Empire, the popular use of the labyrinth as a design element in mosaic flooring resulted in a number of interesting developments, all conveniently classifiable as "Roman" varieties.
		The first labyrinth in Australia appears to be the Ballarat hedge maze, in the Botanical Gardens, originally planted in 1862, cleared in 1881, replanted in the late 1880's and eventually destroyed in 1954.
	www.crystalinks.com /labyrinths.html (3345 words)

	Labyrinth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
		Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek ("Pelasgian") origin absorbed by classical Greek, and is apparently related to labrys, a word for the archaic iconic "double axe", with -inthos connoting "place" (as in "Corinth").
		The labyrinth is the referent in the familiar Greek patterns of the endlessly running meander, to give the "Greek key" its common modern name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labyrinth (1653 words)

	Mazes and Labyrinths: Chapter IV. The Cretan Labyrinth
		The Labyrinth was designed as a dwelling for, or at any rate was inhabited by, a hideous and cruel being called the Minotaur, a monstrous offspring of Queen Pasiphaë, wife of Minos.
		Theseus followed his instructions, met the Minotaur in its lair and, after a terrific combat, overcame and slew it, after which he retraced his steps by means of the thread and made his escape from the Labyrinth.
		The Cretan poet Epimenides, who lived in the sixth century B.C., says that Theseus was aided in his escape from the dark Labyrinth by means of the light radiated by a crown of blazing gems and gold which Bacchus gave to Ariadne.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/ml/ml07.htm (1323 words)

	California Labyrinths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Friends of the Labyrinth also feel that the fire danger conditions at the Labyrinth should be regarded as extremely high, especially during the dry season that extends from May to November.
		But her labyrinth quickly took on a life of its own as hikers, now attracted to the site, began to build it up as a rock labyrinth before Helena could finish it.
		The Labyrinth is located in mountain lion country, which means that when you disembark from your car at the trailhead, you become a part of the food chain.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~friendsofthelabyrinth (4735 words)

	Labyrinth Work - Article Crete
		Crete, The Palace of Knossos; The labyrinth and the Myth
		Crete may indeed be the location of the earliest known labyrinth, but the evidence is far from compelling.
		In fact, the only material evidence that a labyrinth existed in Crete is the labyrinth engraved coins dated c 500 BCE - almost a millennium after the Minoan civilization ended.
	labyrinthwork.com /article_CRETE.htm (1206 words)

	Labyrinths: Symbols of Hell & the Pilgrim's Way
		Interestingly, the Chartres labyrinth is situated at the Western end of the nave and has the same dimensions as the rose window, which is as high up on the facade as the labyrinth is away from the West wall.
		Large, full-sized labyrinths can be walked in penance on one's knees, walked as "pilgrimage" much the same as the Way of the Cross, or walked simply as a way of disciplined prayer in that it forces one to slow down.
		The Chartres labyrinth is an "11 circuit" labyrinth, meaning that from one edge to the center are 11 "circuits," or rows of paths, made by 12 concentric circles (i.e, it is 22 circuits across, plus the center).
	www.fisheaters.com /labyrinths.html (1797 words)

	A letter from labirynth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If we think of a labyrinth we do not only think of a wall, we think of a serpent, of a garden or a drawing of spirals with one way in and one way out, we imagine it from a bird's eye point of view.
		The labyrinth is not only the center but also the whole, walls shape its form but the space that has any sense to us is the space we can move in, the negative space.
		The labyrinth is like the rose; we don't grasp the labyrinth while in it; we know the labyrinth from the outside but we must go through it.
	www.architecthum.edu.mx /Architecthumtemp/colaboradores/letralaberintoeng.htm (1782 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Crete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Minos, mythological king of Crete, awaits a victim for the Labyrinth.
		In myth Crete was ruled by King Minos, who periodically demanded a tribute of young men and maidens of Athens to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the monster of the Labyrinth.
		Crete was the site of the earliest high civilization in Europe.
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/gallery/crete_c.html (506 words)

	Enter the labyrinth
		Labyrinths predate Christianity by over 1,000 years according to an article posted on the Web site of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco “Pathfinders: Walking Medieval Labyrinths in a Modern World.” And the purpose of this article is make Christians aware that Labyrinths are not in any shape or form a Christian practice.
		The most famous Labyrinth from ancient times was the Cretan one, associated with the legend of the Minotaur, the monster half-man half-bull which dwelt in the heart of a labyrinth on the island of Crete.
		It was at the centre of the Labyrinth that the Minotaur
	www.letusreason.org /Nam30.htm (4889 words)

	Mystery and Magic of Labyrinths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It seems that this early labyrinth, which may have been more of a maze than a labyrinth, was a huge building (or series of connected buildings) with a myriad of confusing passageways in which it was easy to get lost.
		For centuries, walking this labyrinth was the main event of a three-day county fair that began in 1353.
		It is believed that the concept of the labyrinth was developed from the spiral – a fundamental form found in nature in the nautilus shell, the turn of a ram's horn, the manner in which snakes coil and birds spiral up to ride thermals.
	www.kynes.net /labyrinth.htm (1725 words)

	Search Results for "labyrinth"
		More celebrated was a labyrinth in Crete built,...
		Labyrinth fishes are spiny-finned fishes of Africa and SE Asia, which have a labyrinthine chamber over the gills that enables them to absorb and retain atmospheric...
		...Greek labyrinth, consisting of intricate paths or alleys lined with high hedges and having a center and exit difficult to find.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=labyrinth (254 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - labyrinth
		LABYRINTH [labyrinth], intricate building of chambers and passages, often constructed so as to perplex and confuse a person inside.
		More celebrated was a labyrinth in Crete built, according to Greek myth, by Daedalus to house the Minotaur (see Minos).
		Intertextual Labyrinths: Ariadne's Lament in Montaigne's "Sur des vers de Virgile" [*].
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/l1/labyrin.asp (268 words)

	Symbols.com - Symbol 13:6
		We see this ideogram on an Etruscian vase from about 550 B.C. Later, about 300 B.C., it was used on coins in Crete, as the logotype, so to say, of the ruler there.
		The structure is probably a representation of the mythological labyrinth in Knossos, Crete, used to contain the Minotaurus monstre, half human, half bull.
		Catholic missionaries found in the middle of the eighteenth centrury a stone with this structure carved in a town in Nepal, which the Nepalese told them represented the plan of an old city whose ruins these missionaries had seen on their journey.
	www.symbols.com /encyclopedia/13/136.html (298 words)

	The Labyrinth of Crete, Crete 1943
		They were shepherds and they used to graze their flocks around there, and entered the Labyrinth often because it was always warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
		The Labyrinth was a quarry in olden times, and many monuments were built with stone from there.
		The Labyrinth of Crete, the myth of the Minotaur
	www.explorecrete.com /history/labyrinth-manassakis.htm (892 words)

	HP Logo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The labyrinth is therefore a metaphor for both psychological work to reach and heal the inner self, and for spiritual work to reach the inner Divine.
		The word labyrinth is associated with the Greek legend of the Athenian hero Theseus.
		Theseus entered the labyrinth on Crete to overcome the half-man, half-bull Minotaur monster that resided in it.
	www.pathwork.ca /hp_logo.htm (291 words)

	----- LABYRINTH OF KNOSSOS -----
		In Greek mythology, the labyrinth of Crete was derived from the elaborate floor plan of the Palace at Knossos.
		Daedalus the Athenian craftsman, was the architect and inventor who designed for King Minos of Crete the labyrinth in which was imprisoned the Minotaur, a man-eating monster that was half man and half bull.
		Daedalus revealed the secret of the labyrinth only to Ariadne, daughter of Minos, and she aided her lover, the Athenian hero Theseus, to slay the monster and escape.
	www.dilos.com /region/crete/labyrin.html (304 words)

	Edmonton Labyrinth Society
		If you are interested in renting the labyrinth and/or having a talk on labyrinths, please call Charles at 436-8774 or email him.
		Labyrinths are ancient devices used in many cultures to bring about a transformation in consciousness.
		Her Chartres design, 11-circuit, rainbow labyrinth is on a single piece of canvas 24ft wide; it weighs 25lbs and can be shipped.
	www.ualberta.ca /~cbidwell/SITES/labindex.htm (1821 words)

	Labyrinth Inspirational Gifts: Finger Labyrinths, candles, rocks, suncatchers, pendants, dowsing rods
		The labyrinth is 6" in diameter and comes boxed with a plate stand, attached wall hanger, and story card with descriptions of the colors, meanings, and purpose of each path or circuit.
		This classic 7 circuit labyrinth design was found on a 3500 year old rock carving on a cliff near the village of Tintagel in Cornwall, England and has been called the Arthurian Stone, associated with King Arthur's vision of peace and enlightenment in Camelot.
		The Labyrinth is a symbol of the spiritual journey to the center.
	www.mountainvalleycenter.com /store/html/labyrint2.htm (1263 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Labyrinth at Knossos
		According to legend, Thesesus fought the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster, in the depths of the labyrinth.
		The wealth from the trade financed a number of palaces on Crete, the largest of which was the palace at Knossos.
		While there is no archaeological evidence of a labyrinth, the palace itself to a visitor must have seemed like an intimidating maze of corridors, staircases and rooms.
	www.unmuseum.org /minot.htm (1267 words)

	:: The Labyrinth, Minotaur, I AM ~~
		Historical Library c.60-30 BC The symbol of the labyrinth can be found everywhere on earth: in Russia, China, Europe, Australia, Scandinavia, Africa, North and South America, remote islands, nameless mountains, and ancient caves.
		Labyrinth’s stories can be found in those fascinating writings, about the initiations of ancient civilizations, including those of the Egyptian mystery school and those of the American Indian nations.
		Some people say there is a difference between a Labyrinth and a maze: the one with the double spirals is a Labyrinth; the one without is a maze.
	www.omniparticle.com /labyrinth.html (2299 words)

	Kika Bomer: The Labyrinth as Ambiguous Form
		The text as labyrinth would be one in which the individual is led through passages, immersed in the parts, and is unable to see the center or the whole until it is revealed to him/her.
		The entrance into the labyrinth is the Christian myth in which the woman is like the Virgin Mary who "does not die but moves from one spatiality to another within the same time via dormition....or via assumption" (191) and the son embodies the project of linear time.
		In this passageway of the labyrinth, a child is killed by him, the child who was the writer's unrealized possibility, in one of her stories.
	www.rioarts.com /rio7/bomer.html (10616 words)

	Labyrinth, the Occult has Gone Mainstream
		The most famous labyrinth from ancient times was the Cretan one, the supposed lair of the mythological Minotaur, which Theseus slew with the aid of Ariadne and her spool of thread.
		In Greek mythology, the Cretan labyrinth was constructed by the Athenian craftsman Daedalus as a prison for the Minotaur, a part-bull, part-man monster.
		The term labyrinth is also applied to mazelike patterns on the floors of some medieval churches, intended perhaps to symbolize the tortuous journey of Christian pilgrims toward salvation.
	www.cephas-library.com /na/new_age_labyrinth.html (2244 words)

	Labyrinth Society of Edmonton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Minoan culture in Crete that was contemporary with that of the Egyptian Pharaohs, had its power centre at the Palace of Knossos.
		There are many parts to a medieval labyrinth and there are appropriate ways to walk it and there are many approaches to meditation using the labyrinth.
		Contact the Edmonton Labyrinth Society or the Keeper of the Portable Labyrinth in Edmonton.
	www.ualberta.ca /~cbidwell/SITES/labwhat.htm (307 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Labyrinth
		Geometrical figures composed of various pieces of coloured marbles and so disposed as to form labyrinths were frequently found in the pavements of French cathedrals and so-called labyrinthes de pavé.
		Similar labyrinths formerly existed at Notre Dame, Paris, at the cathedral of Reims, and at Amiens.
		These labyrinths were supposed to have originated in a symbolical allusion to the Holy City, and certain prayers and devotions doubtless accompanied the perambulation of their intricate mazes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08728b.htm (264 words)

	Commemorative CD-ROM
		Hanna-Barbera’s Cartoon Carnival, Merlin’s Apprentice, and Labyrinth of Crete for all Classic and OS X Macs, but not the Intel Mac.
		Labyrinth of Crete - A rousing epic of Greek mythology in which you must appease both the King and Queen of Mt. Olympus.
		Yet you must conquer the treachery within the walls of the labyrinth and seek the gifts of the Gods and Goddesses who await you in their sacred temples.
	www.thefoolsgold.com /store/fe-paypal.htm (457 words)

	Labyrinth at Dreamweaver Lodge
		In modern times, the archetype of the labyrinth is reemerging as a pathfinder for the evolution of human consciousness, the healing of the spirit, and the balancing of vital life force energies.
		The labyrinth may be found in the decorative art of many cultures, but is most powerful as a tool for ceremonial and meditational walking and pilgrimage.
		But, again the labyrinth began showing up in my life, in dreams, external images, references from friends and students, until it became clear to me that the sacred circle I would build at my new home would be a labyrinth.
	www.dreamweaverlodge.com /labyrinth.html (1400 words)

	Minotaur, half man, half bull, confined in the labyrinth in Crete
		Minotaur: A monster shaped half like a man and half like a bull, confined in the labyrinth built by Daedalus for Minos, and given a periodical tribute of seven youths and seven maidens until finally slain by Theseus.
		Its horns were sharp as knives, its great hooves could kick the life out the strongest of heroes, and its food was human flesh.
		The Minotaur lived in the labyrinth, a great maze of winding passages on the island of Crete.
	www.panphobia.com /monsters/monsters_minotaur.htm (134 words)

	Labyrinth of Crete download @ Game Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Puzzles in Labyrinth of Crete will be familiar to anyone who has played Merlin's Apprentice.
		There are some action puzzles that require you to click on objects that float by, several logic puzzles that involve moving objects into a certain configuration using only a few types of movements, and word puzzles requiring deciphering some encrypted sentences.
		The bottom line is that anyone who likes Merlin's Apprentice will love Labyrinth of Crete because they are virtually the same game, although Labyrinth has a more interesting plot, cutscenes, and arguably higher educational values since there is a lot of information about Greek mythology.
	free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/puzzle_games/games_k_n/labyrinth_of_crete.html (312 words)

	Labyrinth of Crete Review and Walkthrough
		Labyrinth of Crete is an interesting puzzle game heavily flavored with themes of astrology and Greek mythology.
		As in other puzzle titles such as Jewels of the Oracle, the main emphasis of Labyrinth of Crete is on the puzzles themselves, with only a thin plot thread tying the game together.
		With its extensive replayability, Labyrinth of Crete can be enjoyed when a limited amount of time is available or when you don't want to have to keep track of the complete plot of a traditional adventure game.
	www.balmoralsoftware.com /crete/crete.htm (2905 words)

	MINOTAUR : Bull-headed man of the Labyrinth of Crete, labor Theseus ; Greek mythology ; pictures : MINOTAUROS
		The creature resided in the twisting maze of the labyrinth, where he was offfered a regular sacrifice of youths sand maids to satisfy his cannibalistic hunger.
		It was often represented by ancient artists either alone in the labyrinth, or engaged in the struggle with Theseus.
		The Minotauros was kept in a labyrinth, from which there was no escape after one entered, for it closed off its imperceivable exit with convoluted flexions.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/Minotauros.html (1970 words)

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