THE LABYRINTH
or Knossos Knossos was the largest city
Minoan civilization that reached its peak in the second millennium BC. The Minoan civilization arose during the Bronze Age, and developed on the island of Crete. It was one of three principal cultures of Aegean civilization, along with the Cycladic, which took place in the Cyclades and the Mycenaean civilization.
Knossos Palace
The flagship building was the palace of Knossos, with its 17,000 m² and more than 1,500 rooms, was the main palace in the Cretan who wanted to see the headquarters of the legendary King Minos.
agglutinates whole complex around a central courtyard and is divided into two major groups, East and West, separated by two entrances to the north and south. Because of the way of building of the Minoans, gradually adding rooms, these runners are not in a linear arrangement, but are arranged randomly, following a tortuous path.
about religion did not have anthropomorphic deities (which would be very related to the cults of the Neolithic to the forces of nature), but the Great Mother Goddess, goddess of fertility also known as the Grand Lady of the Labyrinth, which is represented in traditional dress occasions with the Minoan and snakes in both hands, they also symbols of fertility of the land forces.
Minoan civilization that reached its peak in the second millennium BC. The Minoan civilization arose during the Bronze Age, and developed on the island of Crete. It was one of three principal cultures of Aegean civilization, along with the Cycladic, which took place in the Cyclades and the Mycenaean civilization.
Knossos Palace
The flagship building was the palace of Knossos, with its 17,000 m² and more than 1,500 rooms, was the main palace in the Cretan who wanted to see the headquarters of the legendary King Minos.
agglutinates whole complex around a central courtyard and is divided into two major groups, East and West, separated by two entrances to the north and south. Because of the way of building of the Minoans, gradually adding rooms, these runners are not in a linear arrangement, but are arranged randomly, following a tortuous path.
about religion did not have anthropomorphic deities (which would be very related to the cults of the Neolithic to the forces of nature), but the Great Mother Goddess, goddess of fertility also known as the Grand Lady of the Labyrinth, which is represented in traditional dress occasions with the Minoan and snakes in both hands, they also symbols of fertility of the land forces.
Goddess of Snakes
The palace was identified as the labyrinth Minos imprisoned the Minotaur, from which the myth of Theseus and his fight against horrible beast. Access to the palace from the western courtyard was made through a covered corridor, the western porch, where there was a cool relief to the theme of the game of the bull. The road went down a long hallway at an angle, the rider of the processions, so called because it is decorated with a fresco in which young men and women, natural size, carrying valuable offerings.
The whole feel of the Minoan palace is a maze and it is not strange, the corridors leading to actual dependencies and zigzag-shaped key, the steps are not straight, but often are shaped curve so that the visitor was led to their dependence and actual reliance by an indirect route with a detour.
Labyrinth yet in a Indo-European name (suffix-nth-) is not known whether it applied to the whole palace or a room where apparently a complex dance dancing (called the labyrinth), part the ritual of the Great Mother Goddess between light and darkness (life and death), the steps would be drawn on the ground marking the direction of the ball. This duality was also represented at the palace itself in its winding ways?
These "labyrinthine dances" were of an erotic nature with which honored the spring. Should be an imitation of ritual partridge hunting through booby-trapped mazes (such as truces) and dance in question represented the female partridge approaching the bait does, to the point that the dancers were limping and wearing wings on the back.
appears that the spring was carried out throughout the Mediterranean basin this erotic dance of the partridge.
THE DANCE OF THE PARTRIDGE
* An Etruscan wine jar Tragliatella in which two heroes are riding, shows the religious theory about the dance of the partridge. The front rider is carrying a shield on which is drawn a partridge, and a demon of death sits behind him, the other hero carries a spear and a shield is painted a duck. Behind them is a labyrinthine pattern similar to that found not only in certain coins of Knossos, but also the intricate drawings on the grass and stepped on the British school Easter until the nineteenth century.
* On the island of Gothland, there is a design very similar to the circular maze that appears on coins from Knossos. These are found on islands in general, or near the sea coast, and was known by various names in different localities.
Fishermen and farmers say they were used games for kids: a girl standing in the middle while the boys were going along the winding roads, but said they were in any case, since antiquity, and believed that idea may have originated in the Bronze Age. This is clearly seen as repeating the idea of \u200b\u200bthe dance of the partridge and fertility.
Other similar studies have been found in Iceland, which consists of concentric circles of stones, sometimes with a cross in the center, which have long been known in the province of Brandenburg, Germany.
seem to have escaped the notice of most writers on the issue long before the nineteenth century these objects were described by an antique Swedish.
seem to have escaped the notice of most writers on the issue long before the nineteenth century these objects were described by an antique Swedish.
The names are given in the various localities where found are of some interest .. Around the coast of Finland Jatulintarha names (Near Giant) and Pietarinleikki (san pedro kit) predominate. About Helsingfors are more often called as "ruins of Jerusalem," "City of Nineveh," or "Walls of Jerusalem"
In Norway and Sweden are sometimes called Nunnentarha (Siege of the nun), Jungfrudans (Dance virgin), or Rundborg (Ronda Castle), and on an island in the Kattegat Trelleborg name (The castle of the giant or troll) is, but more often they are known by several names similar to the "city of Troy, as Trojin, Trojeburg, Trojenborg or Tröborg. Another name often associated with them Steintanz (Dance of stones) .. The maze is called Tröjeborg Wisby.
In Norway and Sweden are sometimes called Nunnentarha (Siege of the nun), Jungfrudans (Dance virgin), or Rundborg (Ronda Castle), and on an island in the Kattegat Trelleborg name (The castle of the giant or troll) is, but more often they are known by several names similar to the "city of Troy, as Trojin, Trojeburg, Trojenborg or Tröborg. Another name often associated with them Steintanz (Dance of stones) .. The maze is called Tröjeborg Wisby.
LABYRINTH DANCE
Game Trojan
According to Roman tradition was introduced in Italy Aeneas and his son Ascanius and then Alban kings taught and through them to the Romans. The game was a kind of procession or dance, in which some participants appear to have been mounted on horseback. Virgil makes a comparison between the intricate moves of the game and turns the Cretan labyrinth.
GERAN THE DANCE
The dance performed by Theseus and his friends on the island of Delos. So called probably due the attitude of the dancers looking like the cranes in flight, or perhaps because of real ornaments of the dancers. (A traveling German eighteenth century relates that the Ostiaks Russian Siberia had an elaborate dance of the crane, and that Dancers dressed as birds.)
Gerano back to the dance or the crane, it was said that this was a representation of the passage of Theseus in the labyrinth, entry and exit, following first the opposite direction to the sun and back then using a thread. In some accounts it is said that Ariadne was participating in this dance, in another only with other young Theseus in honor of Aphrodite.
The truth is that the crane dance has been made in many places, but that's what makes it so special? According
Nerissa Russell, associate professor of anthropology at the School of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, and Kevin McGowan, a research associate of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in its letter: "Dance of the Cranes: Crane symbolism in Catalhoyuk and Beyond:
"The dance of the cranes is one of the most obvious signs of any social bird. It's amazing and impossible to overlook - for people today, as well as cultures ago thousands of years, "is a dance that involves running, marching and jumping in the air, flapping their wings strong, stop and start branching into the air.
In ancient Anatolia, in what is now Turkey were found wings of cranes of eighty-five centuries old with holes in them in what was presumably a kind of bird costume for a dance ritual, think this because the holes were not made as a way to break up the wing or the removal of flesh rather to pass a rope through the holes and surround the arms or the dancers, according to Russel. The wings were encontrandas in the company of other unusual items: a cow's horn, two horns of wild goats, the skull of a dog and a head of a stone hammer as a weapon.
DANCE, BIRDS AND FERTILITY RITES
FRANCISCA CANO MARTIN ABREU (Excerpt)
primitive matrilineal societies in girls perform ceremonies transit appear soon after menarche (first menstruation). To prepare, instruct the wise to play the role of adult.
After participating in rites of puberty in the spring, when the New Year begins in many primitive cultures, at the time of planting the crop, when vegetation renewed and open flowers. For this rite girls are believed to symbolically die and be reborn as women, or that they will renovate and open like flowers. Participate in a ritual dance of union with boys, imitating the courtship dances choreographed birds, while encourage each other with chants. "The earliest known are the dances of love imitating certain species of birds, and character of gymnastics" (Encyclopedia, U., Volume 7, 1988: 210).
During the celebration, like female birds choose the future spouse, girls choose their partner or boyfriend and then go to have sex after the bushes. In some regions, boys and girls dance together. In others, children, beautifully dressed to increase the possibility of being elected, they dance in front of girls (in imitation of the male birds choreographers in the courtship displays, display the beauty of their breeding plumage color has changed compared to other stations). Sometimes make rhythmic movements and staging sexual intercourse with either the head or whole body.
During the prelude to the mating dances in certain regions, young people choose to the most handsome guys linked by his neck with one of your ties, or your scarf or your necklace garlands. In other regions that choose to have more "tail" (a word that also applies to the male sexual organ). Similar to the criteria of beauty or the size of the pens that encourages females of different species of birds choreographers to choose their male consorts: Depending on the view and grandeur to unfold the tail fan (as in the alpine ptarmigan or ptarmigans) or the length of the tail feathers (as in birds VUID / als of Senegal and Paradise or earwigs, which at the time they grow two very long nuptial plumes).
The "Danza de la Pava" in Peru today "Tondero" which was danced in time before the discovery by Tallan indigenous culture. "Take note that our tondero Ornitomórfico choreography has a profile mimicking the movements of the kettle in a ceremonial mating (picking the side skirt from the bottom up and with both hands toward the back like a tail and simulating an approach determined body union). " (Riofrio, 2003).
In Guarani peoples, Paraguay aborigines, dance dance "Tango", in which men dance together and separated women also dance together. (The real choreography of courtship the male tanager bird or dancer, in their courtship displays, is placed on a branch and displayed a male after other in front of a female representations repeating until the female decides who will be his consort). There are other dance related Paraguayan origin of birds courtship: "Cielito Chopi" Chopi eponymous bird, pigeon, black bird with yellow breast and red of the Upper Parana,
In Santiago del Estero, Salta and Tucuman, Argentina dance Quichua original dance called "Pala Pala" Crow "in which a man imitates the courtship of a crow to your partner. In Jujuy, Argentina to dance the dance of "Queo", in which the dancers dance imitating the movements of a wild bird, dance legacy of Aboriginal Jujuies.
In Chile there is a dance called "sin" in which the pair of dancers mimic his arms and feet movements of the couple's courtship eponymous bird. In the initiation ceremonies for girls of Aonikenk or Tewelches of Chile, the men ran: "... the Dance of the ostriches. The men intended to participate in the ceremony went straight from an awning. With his body covered head skins and ostrich feathers, began to circle around the fire as close as touching, and retreating movements imitating the walk of the ostriches and guanacos. " (Navarro and Munoz, 2002).
In Guarani peoples, Paraguay aborigines, dance dance "Tango", in which men dance together and separated women also dance together. (The real choreography of courtship the male tanager bird or dancer, in their courtship displays, is placed on a branch and displayed a male after other in front of a female representations repeating until the female decides who will be his consort). There are other dance related Paraguayan origin of birds courtship: "Cielito Chopi" Chopi eponymous bird, pigeon, black bird with yellow breast and red of the Upper Parana,
In Santiago del Estero, Salta and Tucuman, Argentina dance Quichua original dance called "Pala Pala" Crow "in which a man imitates the courtship of a crow to your partner. In Jujuy, Argentina to dance the dance of "Queo", in which the dancers dance imitating the movements of a wild bird, dance legacy of Aboriginal Jujuies.
In Chile there is a dance called "sin" in which the pair of dancers mimic his arms and feet movements of the couple's courtship eponymous bird. In the initiation ceremonies for girls of Aonikenk or Tewelches of Chile, the men ran: "... the Dance of the ostriches. The men intended to participate in the ceremony went straight from an awning. With his body covered head skins and ostrich feathers, began to circle around the fire as close as touching, and retreating movements imitating the walk of the ostriches and guanacos. " (Navarro and Munoz, 2002).
