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men will often exuberantly contest each other at celebrations and dinners
with the careful spiral Crane Dance of Delos, carefully trod with
measured steps of labyrinthine evolutions that Theseus first performed at
Knossos. 94 Daedalus built such a dancing floor in Knossos for Ariadne.
He marked the maze pattern in white marble relief, copied from the
Egyptian Labyrinth: 95
Daedalus in Knossos once contrived
A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne…
Archeologists discovered an open space in front of the palace at
Knossos. 96 This open space had a maze pattern to guide the performers in
their partridge hobbling-dance. Knossian coins also showed this pattern.
A Cretan maze cut on a rock face in Bosinney in Cornwall shows that the
maze reached Britain. It is exactly the same pattern as the British turf-cut
mazes, known as Troy-towns, which schoolchildren trod at Easter until
the nineteenth century. 97 The Easter egg was a symbol of resurrection and
the counter-charm to the apple of the Goddess. 98
Traditionally, hunters captured partridges in a brushwood maze.
They caged a bird in the center of the maze, which offered food-calls,
love calls and challenges. As visiting birds arrived at the center, the
hunters knocked them on the head. 99
Jacob confirms he is a smith-god by his ritual laming: 100
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not
against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for
the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said,
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast
thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
The sacred marriage of Salma and the Flower Queen Moon
Goddess at Jerusalem is in Canticles: 101
I am the Rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Much has been made of this song because of seven references to
Solomon in the Hebrew text. These references skew the interpretation of
the Song to a love between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Yet, the
Solomonic verses are coarse in comparison with the sensitive poetry of
the Song and an ill fit with the tenor of the main verse. The new lines talk
not of pure philosophical and carnal love between man and woman but
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