. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 131.—Indian Labyrinth Figurefrom Eighteenth-century SpanishManuscript. (After Cotton.) Park. This, it will be seen (Fig. 132), bears no likenessto the conventional design, but is merely an asymmetricalmeandering groove somewhat similar in appearance tothe braided designs often seen on modish feminineapparel at the present day. Its significance is to a short review in Folk Lore in 1913, abook entitled Some Zulu Customs and Folk Lore,by L. H. Samuelson (Nomleti), 1912, contained adescription of ma
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 131.—Indian Labyrinth Figurefrom Eighteenth-century SpanishManuscript. (After Cotton.) Park. This, it will be seen (Fig. 132), bears no likenessto the conventional design, but is merely an asymmetricalmeandering groove somewhat similar in appearance tothe braided designs often seen on modish feminineapparel at the present day. Its significance is to a short review in Folk Lore in 1913, abook entitled Some Zulu Customs and Folk Lore,by L. H. Samuelson (Nomleti), 1912, contained adescription of mazes made on the ground by this book is out of print, and no copy,. Fig. 132.—Labyrinthine Pictograph from Mesa Verde. (After Fewkes.) strange to say, is to be found in the library of either theBritish Museum or the Folk Lore Society. It would beextremely interesting to know whether the mazes in ques-tion bear any similarity to the traditional Cretan far, then, evidence of a definite labyrinth cult isconfined to certain parts of Europe and the Mediter-ranean borders. It has, in fadt., been shown that it corre-sponds roughly with the areas formerly occupied by thepeople that built the cromlechs. With regard to its originand significance, many interesting speculations have beenmade, some of which we will now briefly review. l55 CHAPTER XVIII THE DANCE OR GAME OF TROY Readers of our previous chapters will have noticed thefrequency with which the name Troy is associatedwith the idea of the labyrinth. We find this association, for instance, in the case of the*Troy-towns of Somerton and Hillbury, the Wallsof Troy of the Cumberland Marshes and Ap
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