Some of the odd labyrinths probably were mistakes. Instead, it is we who make the “mistake”: namely, of assuming that the people who built these labyrinths intended them to be walked as we walk them today of assuming that any labyrinth that is not walkable that way must be mistaken. But we ought not to conclude that what we see as anomalies are mistakes. I conclude, therefore, that these anomalies were present in the labyrinths themselves. On the contrary, they were earnestly trying to preserve a rapidly vanishing past from oblivion, carefully recording these objects for posterity. I doubt that these early researchers were being careless in their diagrams. 125, page 148, of Matthews’s Mazes and Labyrinths. The complementary classical at Borgo is also illustrated in Fig. Both are illustrated in the letter, and are reproduced in Figs 2 and 3 of Nigel Pennick’s “European Troytowns” ( ). This is one of two stone labyrinths near Borgo mentioned in Aspelin’s letter the other is a straight-forward Baltic-style labyrinth with a central spiral and separate exit path. (The letter is included in the report of the Society for, in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, vol. The complement of the 15-course classical labyrinth was reported near Borgo (modern Porvoo, Finland, some 50 km east of Helsinki) by Johan Reinhold Aspelin in a letter to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. My comment on the post pointed out that “complementary classicals” are not unknown historically. Photos of a modern example of this design on the banks of the Rhine near Duisburg are featured in Erwin’s post. The complement of a labyrinth visits the courses in reverse order: the complement of the classical labyrinth, for example, traces the courses in the order (5 6 7 4 1 2 3), just the reverse of the standard classical order (3 2 1 4 7 6 5). The term “complement” is due to Andreas see his post of 2 July 2017. The complement of the classical 7-course labyrinth is highlighted in Erwin’s recent post “ The Complementary Classical 7 Circuit Labyrinth” (20 September 2020). This guest post was kindly contributed by Richard Myers Shelton when a conversation was developing over a previous article.
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