Difference between revisions of "Blood In The Labyrinth"

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-* The '''Labyrinth''' of Crete, housing the '''Minotaur''' &mdash; half-bull, half-man, child of King Minos's wife Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull. Seven Athenian youths and seven maidens were sent in as ritual tribute every nine years to be devoured; Theseus ends the sacrificial cycle.
-* The myth reads as an 'archaic religion of sacrifice', the kind that Christianity was understood (by its own theologians) to supersede. Adjacent to the bull-horned imagery and the "god with horns" sample on ''[[Geogaddi]]'''s "[[You Could Feel the Sky]]".
-* The Labyrinth is also a medieval Christian symbol &mdash; the cathedral-floor labyrinth of Chartres was walked as a substitute for the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Sacrificial blood in the labyrinth layers pagan sacrifice on Christian pilgrimage.
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