A-MAZE

This weekend was a good one. One of the fun things I got to do was a garden maze, the first one I've ever done. It was pretty cool, made me wish that we had them more and like they do in the movies!

• Unicursal labyrinths — a labyrinth which consists of a path which twists and turns, but which has no dead ends
• The earliest coin found in the world has on its face a labyrinth
• Mazes DO have dead ends!
• The very idea of labyrinths and mazes incorporates a great deal of symbolism. They offer the curious a means to become lost, and then find oneself again
• During the medieval period many churches incorporated unicursal labyrinths into their floors  
• During the medieval period garden labyrinths became very much associated with love — they were, after all, the perfect place for secret dalliances.
• Henry II built a labyrinth in his garden at Woodstock to hide his mistress Rosamund from his jealous wife, Eleanor of Acquitaine
• In France the garden labyrinths were known as Houses of Daedalus 
• The first recorded maze in history was the Egyptian Labyrinth. Herodotus, a Greek traveler and writer, visited the Egyptian Labyrinth in the 5th century, BC. The building was located just above Lake Moeris and opposite the city of the crocodiles 
• Certainly the most famous labyrinth of all time is that associated with the Greek myth of Thesesus and the Minotaur. According to the legend, King Aegeus was forced to pay tribute to King Minos of the Minoans, whose kingdom was on the island we now call Crete. Every year the tribute included seven young men and seven young maidens. Underground far below King Minos' palace at the city of Knossos lay a huge maze. Inside the maze Minos kept a monster called the Minotaur. The Minotaur was a hideous creature that was half man and half bull. The fourteen young people from Greece would be let loose into the maze, where they would become hopelessly lost and eventually be eaten by the monster