Been reading what I can find on A.B. Cook’s Zeus and he seems to
take long tangents occasionally but it is always interesting.
Cut my finger on a can yesterday so typing hurts. I’m going to
cut and paste the parts on Labyrinths that I thought were
interesting. - It would seem, then, that Attic tradition points
back¬wards to a time when the Labyrinth was depicted, not as a
palace, but as a maeander or swastika-pattern. The same result
is reached on Cretan soil. Coins of Knossos from c. 500 B.C.
onwards represent the Labyrinth by a swastika or by some
derivative of the swastika. The pattern develops in two
directions - it seems certain that both Attic and Cretan art
presuppose the swastika as the earliest ascertainable form of
the Labyrinth, That much-disputed symbol has a voluminous
literature of its own; and critics are not yet unanimous as to
its ultimate significance. But among, recent investigators,
there is something like a consensus in favour of the view that
it was a stylised representation of the revol