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    The Labyrinth: A Spiritual Journey
    The Labyrinth: A Spiritual Journey
    The Labyrinth: A Spiritual Journey
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    The Labyrinth: A Spiritual Journey

    By Ellyn Sanna

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    Humans have always seen in the labyrinth a symbol of life’s deepest meanings. This book of images, quotes, stories, and folklore reveals the ancient meanings of the labyrinth, meanings that are still relevant today. At the center of the labyrinth, we may encounter a monster—or the Divine. Ultimately, the center is the Self, the true identity to which each of us is called.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnamchara Books
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781933630885
    The Labyrinth: A Spiritual Journey
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    Ellyn Sanna

    Ellyn Sanna is the author of more than thirty books. She is also the executive editor at Harding House Publishing Service, where she has helped to create hundreds of educational books for young adults. She and her family (along with assorted animals) make their home in upstate New York.

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      The Labyrinth - Ellyn Sanna

      ****

      Then it seemed like falling into a labyrinth:

      we thought we were at the finish,

      but our way bent round

      and we found ourselves as it were

      back at the beginning,

      and just as far from

      that which we were seeking at first.

      —Socrates

      ****

      The labyrinth is one of the most ancient of human visual symbols. It is an image that has haunted the human imagination for thousands of years, since the first human beings drew the earliest spiral patterns and told their earliest myths. For earlier, simpler cultures, each detail of nature had meaning. To repeat the intricate curved shapes of seashells and spider webs, coiling snakes and vine tendrils, the slick curls of intestines or the far-flung shining spiral of the Milky Way, was to call forth that meaning. It was more than just an interesting pattern; it meant something.

      These labyrinthine spirals

      indicate the symbolic passageway

      from the visible realm of the human

      into the invisible dimension of the divine.

      —Ami Ronnberg

      ****

      The ancient Mesoamericans, for example, created the spiral pattern of snail shells over and over in their artwork. Like a labyrinth, the snail shell curves inward, a tunnel that leads through enclosing walls to a secret heart at the center. The early Aztecs, Nahuatl, and Maya connected the snail shell to female sexuality, to birth and death. To perish is to be born, they wrote in their chronicles, and the coil of the snail’s shell became for them a powerful symbol of resurrection.

      Like the snail that builds its own slow house,

      we too create the coiling pathway of our lives,

      a secret labyrinth within our hearts

      that leads us slowly, surely

      toward the moment

      when we die—

      and are born again.

      —Evelyn Harris

      ****

      The spider web, another natural labyrinth, has been connected in various myths to the mystery of creation (since a spider creates her web with material from her own body). For Carl Jung, the spider web was a symbol of wholeness, pointing toward the intricate unity of the universe. Western culture came to associate spider webs with witches and death, but African and Native

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