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Labyrinth
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[German Version] I. Minoan and Mycenaean Religion – II. Symbolism
I. Minoan and Mycenaean Religion The Greek word λαβύρινϑος/
labýrinthos and the presumably cognate λάβρυς/
lábrys, “(double-headed) axe,” come from a non-Greek or pre-Greek language stratum, from which the Greeks borrowed them somewhere in the Aegean-Anatolian region. In Asia Minor the toponym
Labranda in Caria, with its shrine and the archaic cultic image of Zeus wielding a labrys (“Zeus Labraundeus”), points to Crete, where myth identifies the labyrinth at Knossos, designed by …
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Religion Past and Present