Labyrinths

[+ Avalon]

https://labyrinthsociety.org/home

 

I've found them fascinating since I read about Theseus and the Minotaur as a boy!

 

http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html

 

There is a connection with the constellation Corona Borealis and the story of Theseus and the Minotaur.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Borealis#Mythology

[Rudynate]

Labyrinths were fashionable a few years ago. They took out a bunch of the seating at Grace Cathedral a few years ago and put in a labyrinth. They have one at a park in Sonoma. I think a labyrinth is supposed to be a metaphor for a quest or something like that. I think theyre tedious.

[+ honcho]

Labyrinths were fashionable a few years ago. They took out a bunch of the seating at Grace Cathedral a few years ago and put in a labyrinth.... I think a labyrinth is supposed to be a metaphor for a quest or something like that. I think they're tedious.

 

Noe Valley Ministries (an episcopal congregation in a Victorian building also in San Francisco) had a labyrinth in its sanctuary, but since the chairs were all loose or folding, they didn't have to do anything special to accommodate it.

[Youngmilkman]

Should you ever visit England you must try the Hampton Court Palace labyrinth.

[+ Avalon]

Should you ever visit England you must try the Hampton Court Palace labyrinth.

 

Thank-you!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Maze

[+ Avalon]

Just to clarify ;

 

A maze is a complex branching (multicursal) puzzle that includes choices of path and direction, may have multiple entrances and exits, and dead ends. A labyrinth is unicursal i.e. has only a single, non-branching path, which leads to the center then back out the same way, with only one entry/exit point.

 

Thank-you for the clarification.

[Rudynate]

There is, I believe, a difference between a maze and a labyrinth.