05-25-2014, 06:05 PM
I think at this point that the assessment made in the ENW thread, and by user "mmadsen" is wrong:
Said iceberg principle existed before, and continuously ever since the middle ages. Not to mention antique mentions, like the Minotaur legend.
But bottom line, that rift that is supposed to have happened in the Baroque era, it doesn't exist.
Mind you that the catacombs of Paris, for example existed since the 12th century; so, the notion that there were no maze-like structures very much in people's reality of life is also very contestable.
Also, mazes had a long-lastin tradition in European Christian religion.
So, to pinpoint it to one or two sources, really, very constestable, in my opinion.
...Yeah, that's me, nearing old age: "I know one thing: that I know nothing."
Said iceberg principle existed before, and continuously ever since the middle ages. Not to mention antique mentions, like the Minotaur legend.
But bottom line, that rift that is supposed to have happened in the Baroque era, it doesn't exist.
Mind you that the catacombs of Paris, for example existed since the 12th century; so, the notion that there were no maze-like structures very much in people's reality of life is also very contestable.
Also, mazes had a long-lastin tradition in European Christian religion.
So, to pinpoint it to one or two sources, really, very constestable, in my opinion.
...Yeah, that's me, nearing old age: "I know one thing: that I know nothing."