Lair of the Minotaur 

Minotaur and the Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (minotaur maze) was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to confine the Minotaur, a beast that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cleverly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread to wind his way back again.

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The phrase labyrinth is regularly used interchangeably with maze, but present scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a intricate branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path ("unicursal") labyrinth has only a lone Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the core and back and is not intended to be difficult to navigate.

This unicursal design was wide-spread in artistic depictions of the Minotaur's Labyrinth even though both logic and literary descriptions of it make it apparent that the Minotaur was trapped in a multicursal maze.

A labyrinth can be represented both symbolically and/or physically. Symbolically it is represented in art or designs on pottery, as body art, carved on walls of caves, etc. Physical representations are common throughout the world, and are commonly constructed on the ground so they may be walked along from entry point to center and back again. They have historically been used in both group ritual and for personal meditation.