318 – Labyrinth
- Physical description:
- Large piece of slate with carved unicursal maze or labyrinth.
- Museum classification:
- Labyrinths
- Size:
- 500 x 300 x 50
- Information:
The riddle of the maze stones - well may the witch ponder the problem. To get a reading from them is like working the tarot cards - but once you master the system you treat them with respect. This stone came from a farm at Michaelstow. (Text by Cecil Williamson)
Entrance to the Other World?
The labyrinth has always been associated with Mother Earth and the entrance to her underworld. Notice the shape of the entrance to a labyrinth and its womb-like centre. Slowly walking, or finger-walking, a labyrinth can induce a trance-like state (en-trance) suitable for the journey into the 'Other World'.
With a uni-cursal (one way) labyrinth one can't get lost - start at the bottom and slowly follow the raised path, you will be moving deosil (sunwise) as often as you are moving widdershins (anti-sun wise). Eventually you will arrive, well balanced, at the sacred centre of the symbol and maybe of another world.- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Slate
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
The riddle of the maze stones - well may the witch ponder the problem. To get a reading from them is like working the tarot cards - but once you master the system you treat them with respect. This stone came from a farm at Michaelstow. (Text by Cecil Williamson)
Entrance to the Other World?
The labyrinth has always been associated with Mother Earth and the entrance to her underworld. Notice the shape of the entrance to a labyrinth and its womb-like centre. Slowly walking, or finger-walking, a labyrinth can induce a trance-like state (en-trance) suitable for the journey into the 'Other World'.
With a uni-cursal (one way) labyrinth one can't get lost - start at the bottom and slowly follow the raised path, you will be moving deosil (sunwise) as often as you are moving widdershins (anti-sun wise). Eventually you will arrive, well balanced, at the sacred centre of the symbol and maybe of another world.