[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dynachrome. Years ago such a maze, long forgotten and undetected, was rediscovered near a major pre-Roman site. Obviously, due to the antiquity and total lack of contemporary written records from even Roman times, there's not much way to figure out how such sites were originally used, irrespective of the way they may have been used during the Middle Ages. :')

The various old dance forms (which have survived mostly in one form, the Square Dance) are likewise very old. The Morris Dance was conducted on purpose-built level grass platforms, called Morris floors. These were so egregiously pagan that Oliver Cromwell banned the dancing and destroyed these floors wherever possible.

Another pagan survival is the maypole dance.

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[dynachrome]

“not much way to figure out how such sites were originally used”
My thought is that it was used a lot like we do with the cornfield mazes. Entertainment

[afraidfortherepublic]

The radio bosses also banned “Morris Dance” music from the airwaves in the 1940s and 1950s because it was so maddenly repetitive and over used. My mother can attest to the “maddening” part of it because I used to practice it on the piano!

[Fred Nerks]

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.

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcJbb5Qfj0&mode=related&search=

possibly a resonance effect?

[tet68]

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.

[Fred Nerks]

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.

[Fred Nerks]

Rock inscripion recently discovered at Pansaimol, Goa.

http://www.labyrinthos.net/indialabs.htm