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Medea, Jason becomes invincible and is able to beguile the sleepless
dragon that guards the Golden Fleece.
We see the same symbolism in the Minoan myth of Minotaur, a
half bull, half-human who is confined to a labyrinth. At Knossos, the cult
of the bull succeeded the partridge cult. 900
Although easy to enter, the labyrinth is impossible to escape from
without the help of the Goddess Ariadne. She represents love. To the
Greeks her name Ariagne meant most pure or very holy (qdeshah). 901 She
was the Moon Goddess honored in the dance of the labyrinth.
Ariadne immediately falls in love with Theseus, who is to be the
next meal for the Minotaur. She seeks the designer of the labyrinth,
Daedalus, to obtain a ball of silken thread. 902 Theseus fastens one end of
this to the door of the maze and unwinds it as he ventures in. After killing
the Minotaur, he is able to emerge from his figurative death by rewinding
the silken thread of Ariadne’s love (see Appendix 6). On Mount Sipylus,
in Athens, Crete, Troy and in Palestine, dancers of the maze or cordax
used a rope in the same way, explained as an aid to keep proper distance
and execute the pattern faultlessly. 903
The Celtic people knew Ariadne’s castle of Light at the Corona
Borealis as Caer Sidi. 904 The Welsh called the maze Caer-droia or Troytown.
The Greeks visualized the Corona Borealis as a crown of fiery
gold and Indian rubies set in the shape of roses. 905 The divine smith
Hephaestus created this crown. The same delicate gold wreaths with
gemmed flowers were found in the Mochlos hoard. 906
Ariadne’s spiral castle is revolving, and remote, gloomy, lofty
and cold. In Celtic myth, this spiral castle is a labyrinthine bridal chaplet
and royal tomb. 907 To escape is to reincarnate.
Many labyrinths are in a mountain cave. 908 The entrance is via a
dark door on the side of a hill. The theme is modern as well as ancient.
Fans of Superman will recognize the castle as the Arctic ice cave where
Superman regenerated. A video clip called Frozen, from the American
singer Madonna’s 1998 album Ray of Light, similarly shows Madonna as
the Triple Goddess in her castle of Light at the Corona Borealis. 909 The
spiral Guggenheim Museum in New York designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright suggests the same fascination of spiral castle and beehive.
The word Hero derives from the name of the Goddess Hera. 910
With his golden apple, the soul of her Hero travels to her paradise at the
back of the North Wind.
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