“Ever notice how when you enter a large grocery store,
Common items like bread & milk are right at the back,
And the journey there is Labyrinthine?
The layout is designed to confuse you,
So you become lost,
And end up impulse-buying items you don’t need.”
— HïMY SYeD 🍥 City of Labyrinths Project (@LabyrinthsDOTca) August 8, 2022
“Sorry. He helped me get out of a maze”
Repayment#comics #bizarro #animals #CatsOfTwitter #cats #Mouse #Minotaur #mythology pic.twitter.com/IRYLklzcUy
— Wayno® (@Waynocartoons) July 23, 2022
"It's only a minotaur setback" #cartoon #CrapGagMonday! pic.twitter.com/LYu554UGPQ
— deAn cartoons (@ThisInkyLife) June 14, 2021
It appears the outline of a Heart I placed at the entrance to my latest Labyrinth painted in Grange Park has been chalked into a smiling face with horns . . .
Minotaur Outside The Labyrinth ?
New labyrinth in the Grange Park. https://t.co/SVsx1rmclc pic.twitter.com/TxNh9ncr0L
— Alyx Dellamonica (@AlyxDellamonica) August 19, 2020
Imagine if your dad was a Minotaur and your mom was a Mermaid and you got the human half of both and now you’re just some guy
— Alenora (@spunkyturnip) June 28, 2020
Or this could be the result pic.twitter.com/7nkw6Uoj5w
— Joe Walsh (@joe_walsh71) June 8, 2022
“The Search for the Center explores the history and cultural significance of Mazes and Labyrinths around the world throughout time.
Examples range from 5000 BC and Greek mythology to current day religious and ceremonial uses in various cultures.”
The Minotaur Mural on Wallace Avenue is down the street and around the corner from the Labyrinth I painted onto the surface of the wading pool in Campbell Park in Toronto.
Though I don’t intentionally create Mazes, paths with dead ends, Campbell Park’s wading pool had some resurfacing done which transformed my Labyrinth into something random and incomplete.
So of all the places in Toronto to mural up a Minotaur, this location is closest to that one Labyrinth of mine which is now a maze.
Mazes have Minotaurs. Labyrinths have love.
I prefer the latter.
The Minotaur Mural!
Forgot all about that one, good to see the colours are still holding up.
In the lab . . .
Dr. Minotaur, PhD.https://t.co/Y82PaMDKxw pic.twitter.com/Ljx0gsGBC0
— Crustacean Singles (@CrustaceanSngls) 1 June 2018
There is a simplexity to this drawing by Katie Brookoff.
Numerous Classic Labyrinths have been found along the shores of many islands, continents, seas and rivers.
At High Tide, the fish came in and may have swam up and into the Labyrinth.
As Low Tide gradually approached, any number of fish may have remained submerged in the inclined pockets of water within the lanes of the Labyrinth, yet without any direct watery way of escape.
People presumably returned at Low Tide, picked up their catch, went home and ate well that day.
There is a reasonable assumption that for thousands of years, these simple three and seven lane Classic Stone Labyrinths, created upon inclined slopes to the water, employing knowledge of tidal timings, were Humanity’s original sustainable fish farms.
I tend to agree with this hypothesis.
To illustrate this concept, here is a simple three lane classic Labyrinth that I made last week, upon the naturescaped Habitat Island in Vancouver’s False Creek, just opposite the location of where I recently completed the Vancouver Public Labyrinth.
Evidenced by the darker wet and lighter coloured dry stones in these images…
Tides in False Creek may rise and fall as much as 15 feet in one day!
Now, all we need is for False Creek to be clean enough again.
Who knows?
Maybe then we might catch a Minnowtaur or two!
A mooseotaur?
These canadian labyrinths suck pic.twitter.com/PNXrf0l6AA
— 🐩 Royal Poodle 🐩 (@royal_poodle) August 7, 2017
It would behoof him to find the exit. First one out wins some timmies and poutine!
— Powerpuff the Lavender poodle🐩 (@DeerWithStripes) August 7, 2017
The Toronto Comics Anthology this year includes the story “The Honest Minotaur” by Steven Andrews (@cardboardshark) and Ally Rom Colthoff (@varethane).
They are currently raising funds via Kickstarter, and it’s also where you can order your own copy.
Books will be available at TCAF – Toronto Comics Arts Festival – in May.
Apparently there's a Toronto Labyrinth Society… their clubhouse is a pain in the ass to find, though, and it involves avoiding a Minotaur.
— Thomas Calnan (@ThomasJCalnan) December 30, 2016
The Toronto Labyrinth Society IS hard to find… because they are known as the Labyrinth Community Network!
Found this Cartoon in The New Yorker.