Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek origin whose derivation and meaning are uncertain. Maximillian Mayer suggested as early as 1892 that labyrinthos might derive from See more

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Cretan labyrinth
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1. ^ Doob 1992, p. 36
2. ^ Kern, Through the Labyrinth, 2000, item 43, p. 53.
3. ^ Kern, Through the Labyrinth, 2000, item 50, p. 54.
4. ^ Penelope Reed Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth, pp. 40–41. See more