somehiker said:
If the Sipapu is the point of emergence into the current world,could the maze be the place of return to the past world? Or perhaps a future world?
Ellie Baba said:
The first impression one sees while looking at a body of water is the sky, or heavens. As it is in heaven so shall it be on the earth.
ref:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/labyrinth
Labyrinth Origin: 1540–50; < L labyrinthus < Gk labýrinthos; r. earlier laborynt < ML laborintus, L,
as above.
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ref:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/labyrinth
Middle English laberinthe, from Latin labyrinthus, from Greek laburinthos; possibly akin to labrus, double-headed axe, of Lydian origin.
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[Note by me: If the handle is held vertically, the left side of the double-edged axe is the same as the right side. But if the handle is held horizontally, then
"what is below is as above."]
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ref:
http://www.mcs.ca/vitalspark/2010_conciousness/209la02.html
The oldest known labyrinth image is the 7-circuit labyrinth that is commonly called the Classical or Cretan Labyrinth.
...although labyrinth images are found in such disparate places as Brazil, Arizona, Iceland, Europe, Algeria, Scandinavia, Egypt, India and Sumatra, none has ever been found in Crete that could be dated during the Minoan civilization. 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.
Up until recent times, the oldest verifiably dated labyrinth was a 7-circuit labyrinth incised into a clay tablet found in Pylos, Greece, circa 1200 BCE. More recently, however, an older 7-circuit image, dated
3000 BCE, was located on a ceiling of the Polyphemus Cave in Bonagia, Sicily.
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ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth
At about the same time as the appearance of the Greek labyrinth, a topologically identical pattern appeared in
Native American culture, the Tohono O'odham labyrinth which features I'itoi, the "Man in the Maze". The Tonoho O'odham pattern has two distinct differences from the Greek: it is radial in design, and the entrance is at the top, where traditional Greek labyrinths have the entrance at the bottom.
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