To get away from me sighing at Americans centering their own problems every time, I'ma relink thishttps://twitter.com/AndriErlingsson/status/808180842988208128 …
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
the labyrinth vs maze thing is a result of the fact that the Minotaur myth is the Greeks slandering an enemy culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
the Minoans walked a labyrinth as part of a sacred ritual, the Greeks reimagined the labyrinth as a death trap maze
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
just like they reimagined the sacred bull as a monster and the sacrifice as a murder of Athenian youths
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
personally I don't know what you mean, I've never written about a <color=red><strike>minotaur
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @AndriErlingsson
oh man I had a whole essay about the Minotaur back from the LiveJournal era
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the Minotaur as a symbol of masculine coded rationalism, of modernity, of the objective narrative voice
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and the inevitable decay thereof into animal prejudice and postmodern madness
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it's basically text in Borges' House of Asterion
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the Minotaur thinks he's the king of the labyrinth when he's actually trapped by it
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akin to the actual Minoan ritual he believes there's a "correct" way to walk the labyrinth
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