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“• The historian of religion Mircea Eliade argues that many of the episodes in the myth of Theseus are garbled descriptions of ancient initiatory rituals. He describes the Ganda tradition of Central Africa, once practiced in the Kuba Kingdom between the tributaries of the Congo River: a man would disappear into a dark cave, while a group of novices gathered around the entrance. Deep inside the tunnel, the man would shout and rattle sticks, and the novices were told he was battling violent spirits. The man then daubed his body with goat’s blood, staggered out of the cave and collapsed. The king then ordered the terrified novices to enter the cave one by one. They thought they were facing a monster; in truth they met nothing more than the limits of their own fear.”
― Henry Eliot, Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In

“A labyrinth has one convoluted, looping path and no choices, whereas a maze has forked paths, wrong turns, and dead ends.”
― Henry Eliot, Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In

“Today there are more mazes in the world than ever before, and more being constructed every year. We are living through the greatest Golden Age of mazes.”
― Henry Eliot, Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In