Posted on 06/20/2007 4:47:34 AM PDT by BGHater
on the one hand, you have developers, who would like to use land regardless of any archeological value. then you have archeophiles, who would fight to preserve many things there simply isn’t money for. In the end, if corporations get to make the decisions, many fascinating things will vanish, and have.
Is this the only extant mini-maze of its type left, or the best preserved or sited? That would be a good argument for preserving it.
on the one hand, you have developers, who would like to use land regardless of any archeological value. then you have archeophiles, who would fight to preserve many things there simply isn’t money for. In the end, if corporations get to make the decisions, many fascinating things will vanish, and have.
Is this the only extant mini-maze of its type left, or the best preserved or sited? That would be a good argument for preserving it.
“Of its type” is the key to it. It is not the only one, but it is really old and has been continuously used. I know there is one in the foyer of the Methodist church down the street, but it isn’t old, it isn’t outdoors, and it certainly isn’t made from turf. There soon will be one at the Episcopal church we used to attend, but again, not outside, not grass turf and most definitely not old.
You put your hand on the wall, either the right or left and follow it until your done. That will help you make it in and out of a maze. If you’re trying to find your way to the center, that may or may not work for you, depending on how the maze is engineered.
This unique shape has been perpetuated in many human cultures. Labyrinths are found carved in rock, ceramics, clay tablets, mosaics, manuscripts, stone patterns, turf, hedges, and cathedral pavements. The earliest known designs are about 3000 years old.
What's the point?
so egregiously pagan
Ah, if only someone would say that about me, sigh.
Gee, it’s too bad some freeper wizz couldn’t photoshop
Hillery!’s face onto Cromwell’s picture, you couldn’t get
a much closer match.
Title: Neolithic labyrinth, northwest Russia Description: The biggest labyrinth in Europe, a neolith cult structure 1-2 thousand years B.C., on Zajatcky Island, 5 kilometers from a monastery. Photographed by Viktor Gritsyuk.
Rock inscripion recently discovered at Pansaimol, Goa.
http://www.labyrinthos.net/indialabs.htm
Sure, but a cat food company got back at ‘em in the late 1960s.
Ah, if only someone would say that about me, sigh.Okay, okay, you're egregiously pagan. ;') Putting Hillary's face onto Oliver Cromwell wouldn't be appropriate. Oliver Hardy, maybe... ;')
Wowzo.
“cat food company got back at them...” LOL. THat took me a minute, but it was very clever. Except for one thing, that cat Morris barely moved — he didn’t remind me of the dance!
Hey, he was smart enough to know that the advertising field is *littered* with unsuccessful dancing cats.
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