Restored – but medieval maze is still a puzzle after centuries[UK]

Yorkshire Post ^ | 19 June 2007 | Simon Bristow

[bannie]

You could jog your whole three miles in an itty bitty space. Japan should look into this.

[billbears]

That’s one suggestion as the article mentioned. But why would it be called a game watched by spectators in the late 17th century if that was the only possibility.

[Mark was here]

Thanks.

[Freedom4US]

Er, I think you mean Joni Mitchell.

[Clara Lou]

You’re right. I meant to put an “(I think)” in there.

[Fletcher J]

Here in Knoxville TN, the city government has recently declared the “5th Avenue Motel” to be an historical site. LOL

The building has been a flop house, homeless shelter, prostitution destination and crack house for most of its life. Other than overdoses, drug dealing and murders, I’m pretty sure nothing of historical note has ever happened there. Mostly it’s known as a place you don’t want your car to break down while passing by.

The motel is currently being restored at taxpayer expense to its “former glory” so that it can then be turned into yet another downtime homeless shelter. LOL

Fletcher J

[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

[FourtySeven]

That’s not a real maze, it doesn’t have any dead ends! It’s just a windy twisty path through four quadrants of a circle.

Kind of a let down.

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Cheaper than cable.

[KosmicKitty]

Someone beat up to this one

[KosmicKitty]

Someone beat up you to this one

[null and void]

The labyrinths provided, however, don't seem to offer any opportunities for meditation or personal reflection, other than for new heights of swearing.

Dunno. Loads of people, who never otherwise would, call upon God in traffic...

[martin gibson]

A bulldozer would have best ended all the time wasted on this non-important remnant from the past.

great idea!! then we would have more room to put up an amusement park, or a breeder reactor or a strip mall!!

[null and void]

its a prayer labyrinth - seen em before

Yup. The idea was the devil/evil spirits would get lost on the turns, because the Debble could only travel in straight lines.

These days we expect Christians to walk the straight and narrow...

[higgmeister]

I was gonna say. Carly Simon is way better than that weirdo Joni Mitchell

[marsh2]

I had heard that if you keep turning to your right, you can make it through a maze.

[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!

[WBL 1952]

How about just less clutter in the world. Like I said earlier I bet the builders of this junk, if told future generations would spend time & money preserving this stuff, would say why bother.

[SunkenCiv]

A more appropriate song, then, would be “The Circle Game”. ;’)