#labyrinth of crete

[encrucijada]

WELCOME TO THE LABYRINTH! ENTER ONLY ASSORTED HYBRIDS

you present your i.d like you need it when your head is a slobbering wolf, tongue lolling out of your open mouth. the i.d says you’re of age and a prodigium.

BAD OMENS GET FREE DRINKS UNTIL 11PM MONSTERS OF DIVINE PUNISHMENT GET COMPLEMENTARY COCKTAIL

in the neon lights of the labyrinth, a lion with a human head asks you: what’s your omen?

you tell him that you don’t know. they tossed you to the river before you could found out. monstrum, you say, not miraculim . obviously, it’s easy to tell just from looking at you. you grab your tongue like it’s dead weight and put it back inside your mouth, clamping your teeth together manually.

OPEN VACANCY NO ROOM SERVICE UNLESS A HUMAN WALKS IN

the lights and colours and the sound of the party follow you down the corridors of the labyrinth. there are no doors, just open gaps on the walls that lead to chambers. half-things are sleeping on the beds. some so big the are more than partly on the floor. people are growling.

a bird with two heads and two sets of wings pops her head out of her chamber and says: i would hide if i were you. her second head says: not here, though!

SIMILARITIES BETWEEN GUESTS WON’T SAVE YOU FROM DEATH WATCH YOUR STEP AND WHO YOU TALK TO

the minotaur bellows from the heart of the labyrinth after you find a chamber with a two-headed serpent, like that bird, who sleeps under the bed. so you take the mattress. they hiss from beneath you: welcome— home.

ALWAYS FELT OSTRACISED? YOU’VE FOUND YOUR FOREVER HOME

intimacy

[worldhistoryfacts]

Ancient coins depicting the labyrinth from Knossos, Crete. Greek myths said that the rulers of Knossos built a labyrinth, at the center of which was a formidable minotaur. The stories tell of an Athenian hero, Theseus, who braved the maze and took on the monster.

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[orkazh-arts]

Bonding with the half-brother 🐮🧶✨

Or, Ariadne and Asterion (the Minotaur) spend some quality time together because f*ck Theseus 💅😌✨

[illustratus]

The House of Asterion by Piero Vettori

[laikaru]

The House of Asterion 🌙🐂

[sadgirlbadpoems]

How cruel to name a child for the stars and bury him beneath the ground.

To allow a child to grow and live in his own tomb.

You called him "monster" and damned him to that fate. A child who is hungry will eat, and you sent him his brethren.

The starry one, dreaming of the night sky, his father from the heavens above looking down on him beneath the earth.

A child interred, wandering alone in an endless maze.

The prince of the Labyrinth, destined to die by the hand of a hero. The last act needed to condemn him to his title "monster".

[uwmspeccoll]

The Minotaur in the Labyrinth

The Minotaur in the Labyrinth stands as one of the ancient stories that has survived the test of time and continuously appears in mainstream entertainment. Most understand that this concept began with the story of Theseus of ancient Athens and how he navigated the labyrinth and slayed the beast within, but many don’t know the inspiration of this idea.

Nearly a millennia before Classical Greece rose to the height of its power (500-350 BCE) the two leading cultures of the Aegean Sea were the Mycenaeans on the mainland and the Minoans on modern day Crete, and it is on this island that we find the labyrinthian structures of Bronze age Greece.

The Bronze Age Palace at Knossos: Plan and Sections by British archaeologist Sinclair Hood and Canadian archaeologist William E, Taylor, Jr., was published as Supplementary Volume No. 13 of The British School at Athens in 1981. It shows the archaeological remains of one of the many Minoan Palaces. Though mostly destroyed and crumbling, we can still see the complex layout of halls and rooms that twist, turn, and abruptly end. Beginning with the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans in 1900, scores of theories have been raised about the purpose of such confounding architecture, from a form of defense to a means of controlling foreign visits.  

Besides the confusing architecture, though no depictions of minotaurs were found, Minoan Palaces such as the one at Knossos did contained several pieces of art that depicted bulls. Upon further inspection, the symbol of the Bull was quite prominent throughout the ancient culture from sports, such as bull leaping, to religious sacrifice.

When looking to those who lived in the past, one should remember that we are not the only ones who inquired about archaeological remains. These ruins would’ve been seen by the Classical Greeks, but by that time their imaginations about the great Palaces and Bull iconography of the Minoan civilization was transformed into the myth of the Minotaur in the Labyrinth.

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-- LauraJean, Special Collections Undergraduate Classics Intern

[mascamaiorum]

Knossos Palace / throne room

Ikana Castle

[creativitycache]

Ask game! 30?

I'm gonna be super honest and say I can't find which Ask Game this is about because Tumblr's search function and I are equally technologically challenged.

[spencerranch]

Monster Month Day 4- Minotaur

About the last thing you want to see if you're an Athenian teen, full of hope, dreams and calories. 

[kitty-wants-to-write]

Haha no girl don’t completely rework your wip the month of exams! Me: hmm yes I’m reworking the wip

um anyway I saw @corkywantstowrite do this and it just captivated me and actually motivated me to make a plot not just vibes??? Unheard of??? Mysterious???

here’s the template: https://edtechpicks.org/2019/11/netflix-template/

All photos are from Pinterest btw

[encrucijada]

i am 200 pages into lake of dead languages. if i'm wrong i don't want to know everyone shut up.

[worldhistoryfacts]

The Theseus Mosaic, which dates to the 300s CE, was found in 1815 in Austria. The mosaic shows the labyrinth that Theseus wandered, with a depiction of his killing of the minotaur at the center. The images around the edges depict Ariadne helping Theseus find his way out with a thread, Theseus boarding his ship, and Ariadne in mourning.

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[edsonjnovaes]

Black Rock City: The Burning Man 2023 1.2

Black Rock City. A cidade mais incomum da Terra – As viagens de Antônio. 22 de jun. de 2022 Neste vídeo, Antônio mostra sua viagem ao deserto de Nevada, EUA, e mais especificamente ao evento, Black Rock City, também conhecido como Burning Man. Este foi um evento gratuito que aconteceu em 2019 e é realizado todos os anos. Não só a entrada é gratuita, como as comidas e bebidas também são…

[illustratus]

The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts

[lowcountry-gothic]

Despite the preponderance of labyrinth myths and images, no remains of a labyrinth have ever been located in Crete. I want to offer another interpretation: The labyrinth was never a static object or a place. It was never a stone corridor. Instead, it was an event. It was a ritual dance to honor the bull and the annual rising of certain constellations. Each ‘passageway’ was a chain of human hands, a serpentine gyration of gestures. The labyrinth was only ever the sacred relationship between people dancing—ecstatically, kinetically—inscribing the patterns of the sky into the soft dirt of the ground.

Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, p. 28