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tjj T
tjj Feb 24, 2010 23:53:09
Replying to drewbhoy

drewbhoy wrote:
Sometimes I think ring and cup marks/other rock art replicate mazes. But I might be being very stupid!
Drew, you are my snow walking hero; labyrinths and mazes are all over the place and definately in rock art.

http://www.labyrinthos.net/firstlabs.html

D drewbhoy
drewbhoy Feb 25, 2010 02:30:37
Replying to tjj

Well snow walking won't be on the list tomorrow. We've been bombarded by the white stuff today, driving back from Fraserburgh was pure guess work. I love that web site tho maybe I'm not so stupid.............

S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Feb 25, 2010 08:18:31
Replying to tjj

My snow-walking days are over - I just sold a pair of snowgoggles on eBay - eight quid! But looking at the mazes of antiquity page I was struck, again, by the image of an emergent mushroom. Give someone a few hallucinogenic mushrooms, put them at the centre of a maze, and it'd take them ages to find a way out.

On another slant has anyone else slept on the tor, or is it just I? It was only once, summer solstice night, and there were others up there, staying awake.

T tiompan
tiompan Feb 25, 2010 09:47:07
Replying to tjj

Pardon the pedantry but there are no Neolithic -BA labyrinths in the British or Irish RA corpus ,or in the megalithic art from Iberian /Franco passage graves ,that I know of .There is a definite similarity due to central cups being surrounded by rings ,penannulars,spirals ,arcs etc but none have the rigidity of that design . The Saward article was right to use the the term labyrinthine .There are a bunch of labyrinths in Russia that he didn't mention , thatsome have considered to be neolithic but with the usual problems regarding dating impossible to prove and unlikely .

F faerygirl
faerygirl Mar 1, 2010 18:01:22
Replying to tjj

I was just reaeding about those swirling symbols and the consecutive swirls found at [[Newgrange]]; showing no begining and no end but runing together to the next swirl (usually going clockwise, but not always). They are found the world over and apparently may represent the eternal nature of the soul and its movement from body to body. Or something like that...

:)