"One jar of honey to all the gods, one jar of honey to the Mistress of the Labyrinth. (First known use of the word "Labyrinth", Linear B script, Knossos, ~1400 BCE)"
Female
100 years old
Cincinnati (Clifton), Ohio
United States
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Burnet Woods Labyrinth Memorial Page's Interests
General
Hiding, having people walk and meditate inside of me, knocking over standing stones and then demanding to have them put back up, scaring away strangers, collecting shells, feathers, coins, and tumbled stones, appearing to change the temperature and local weather conditions.
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Want to walk the former Labyrinth? Below you will find a virtual tour in six successive video segments. The path turns a lot so be prepared for sudden movements. The effect isn't so bad if you reduce the picture size (second to last button on the right of the movie bar).
Labyrinth Walk ONE
This is a page to remember the Burnet Woods Meditation Labyrinth, an art project that lasted for over a year and a half in Cincinnati, Ohio. Burnet Woods is a 90 acre public park in the middle of the city. The slideshow above shows some of the stages of my development. My PICS section is full of images, organized into chronological folders. I was created to be a temporary art installation, constructed from locally found natural materials. I will now be slowly consumed by the woods.
(This slideshow below is for slower computers, it is missing some accompanying text. If you click on the pictures, the words will appear. The top one may also be unavailable if too many people are watching it at the same time.)
A labyrinth is a coiled winding path, walked slowly to a central point as a tool to focus the mind. Unlike a maze, with complex exit choices, you leave by simply reversing your direction and following the same path back to the entrance. Traditional labyrinths follow formal geometric patterns. I curved around trees and wandered across the landscape. There were nine meditation areas inside: one large center and eight smaller ones aligned to the cardinal and intercardinal directions.
When I first began, I was made just from sticks and most people walked by without even noticing me. As more people came to visit, multiple extensions were added to cover the entire open area of my grove. The path continued to be lined with fallen branches and cut logs. On several occasions, the tree near the front dropped huge limbs without hurting anything inside, making a natural front door. The entrance location was chosen before the first limb fell.
Eventually, stones began to be added to mark confusing turns in my path and to serve as seats for meditation. They quickly turned into art. Some stones marked the seasonal rising or setting locations of the sun on the local horizon. These alignments could also be symbolic. The main line of standing stones was set up along the Southwest to Northeast axis. These two points represent the light polarity of the winter solstice setting sun and the summer solstice rising sun.
Before I was closed, I had at least 125 major standing stones or rock piles inside. In earlier phases the entire path was stone lined. When I was closed, these sculptures were all collapsed and piled up into five huge funeral mounds that made a cross pattern over the landscape.
A few people may have randomly started me but the Labyrinth is the product of anonymous communal effort. People were encouraged to bring natural objects to add to the design. Each of the hundreds of rocks inside, from palm-sized to person-sized, represents the effort of a visitor to add to the ever changing experience. The piles of small rocks were accumulated gifts. The stones that were too large to be carried by one person were slowly flipped or rolled by passing visitors. Huge boulders slowly walked uphill to be added to me, often across the park.
During the spring and summer, I was hidden but my front door was obvious. After the leaves fell, no one could tell where to start. During a storm, some limbs fell around the outer edges. They were too large to move. They became the first panels of an elaborate fence that completely encircled me, woven together like netting from the park's waste trimmings.
Who I'd like to meet: People interested in art, especially rock balancing or using found and/or natural materials, meditation, spirituality, or the natural environment. People from all religious traditions and those without any. Old and new friends of the former Burnet Woods Meditation Labyrinth.
The Cincinnati Park Board has closed the Burnet Woods Meditation Labyrinth. There is nothing left. James Godby, the Greenspace Manager for the Cincinnati Park Board, has agreed to hear complaints from the
community. He can be reached by phone at: (513) 861– 9070 or by email at: jim.godby@cinparks.rcc.org
Why? According to the Park Board, the location of the Labyrinth was encroaching on local wildflower areas, the increased foot traffic was compacting the soil, and transporting the stones was decreasing the habitat of the local salamander population.
We piled up the mounds because the Cincinnati Park Board told us they were going to move the stones to rebuild salamander habitat with the assistance of a local expert. Apparently they live in dumpsters. They rolled the rocks that were too heavy to lift downhill and the others were just thrown away with construction debris. The logs were piled up to block access to the trails around it. Some of the stones were rescued by regular walkers; hidden away in home gardens, placed on meditation altars, added to stone piles at other sacred sites, and used as tools in earth healing ceremonies. The Labyrinth lives.
Thank you to everyone who walked, promoted, and helped to build the Burnet Woods Labyrinth during the last year and a half. For those of you just finding it, I am truly sorry that you did not get the chance to experience it. My listing of friends is mostly alphabetical. It currently features metaphysical businesses in the tristate. Please support your local spiritual community!
Don't know Burnet Woods or just want to see Cincinnati from outer space? Copy and Paste the following really long URL into your address bar to get a Google satellite map to the Labyrinth:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Burnet+Woods+Cincinnati&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.626896,59.238281&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=39.140646,-84.516706&spn=0.016077,0.028925&t=h&om=1
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Dear Friend, your page abounds with what I consider a place for an inner sanctuary with all the sights and sounds of Burnet Woods abounding. I recently had the pleasure of enjoying one of your posts by a mutual friend. Thanks for sharing. blessings, Diana
We need to start thinking about the benefits of reaching equilibrium with Nature’s force, recognizing that a positive future depends on that. We must focus our thoughts on being parts of a single, integrated system that contains all people wherever they are, and begin to relate to others accordingly. From Chaos to Harmony Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
i have not been to the labyrinth in a while, but the last time i was there it looked like ruins. is there any plans to rebuild, if so i would like to help.
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A labyrinth is a coiled winding path, walked slowly to a central point as a tool to focus the mind. Unlike a maze, with complex exit choices, you leave by simply reversing your direction and following the same path back to the entrance. Traditional labyrinths follow formal geometric patterns. I curved around trees and wandered across the landscape. There were nine meditation areas inside: one large center and eight smaller ones aligned to the cardinal and intercardinal directions.
When I first began, I was made just from sticks and most people walked by without even noticing me. As more people came to visit, multiple extensions were added to cover the entire open area of my grove. The path continued to be lined with fallen branches and cut logs. On several occasions, the tree near the front dropped huge limbs without hurting anything inside, making a natural front door. The entrance location was chosen before the first limb fell.
Eventually, stones began to be added to mark confusing turns in my path and to serve as seats for meditation. They quickly turned into art. Some stones marked the seasonal rising or setting locations of the sun on the local horizon. These alignments could also be symbolic. The main line of standing stones was set up along the Southwest to Northeast axis. These two points represent the light polarity of the winter solstice setting sun and the summer solstice rising sun.
Before I was closed, I had at least 125 major standing stones or rock piles inside. In earlier phases the entire path was stone lined. When I was closed, these sculptures were all collapsed and piled up into five huge funeral mounds that made a cross pattern over the landscape.
A few people may have randomly started me but the Labyrinth is the product of anonymous communal effort. People were encouraged to bring natural objects to add to the design. Each of the hundreds of rocks inside, from palm-sized to person-sized, represents the effort of a visitor to add to the ever changing experience. The piles of small rocks were accumulated gifts. The stones that were too large to be carried by one person were slowly flipped or rolled by passing visitors. Huge boulders slowly walked uphill to be added to me, often across the park.
During the spring and summer, I was hidden but my front door was obvious. After the leaves fell, no one could tell where to start. During a storm, some limbs fell around the outer edges. They were too large to move. They became the first panels of an elaborate fence that completely encircled me, woven together like netting from the park's waste trimmings.
The Cincinnati Park Board has closed the Burnet Woods Meditation Labyrinth. There is nothing left. James Godby, the Greenspace Manager for the Cincinnati Park Board, has agreed to hear complaints from the
community. He can be reached by phone at: (513) 861– 9070 or by email at: jim.godby@cinparks.rcc.org
Why? According to the Park Board, the location of the Labyrinth was encroaching on local wildflower areas, the increased foot traffic was compacting the soil, and transporting the stones was decreasing the habitat of the local salamander population.
We piled up the mounds because the Cincinnati Park Board told us they were going to move the stones to rebuild salamander habitat with the assistance of a local expert. Apparently they live in dumpsters. They rolled the rocks that were too heavy to lift downhill and the others were just thrown away with construction debris. The logs were piled up to block access to the trails around it. Some of the stones were rescued by regular walkers; hidden away in home gardens, placed on meditation altars, added to stone piles at other sacred sites, and used as tools in earth healing ceremonies. The Labyrinth lives.
Thank you to everyone who walked, promoted, and helped to build the Burnet Woods Labyrinth during the last year and a half. For those of you just finding it, I am truly sorry that you did not get the chance to experience it. My listing of friends is mostly alphabetical. It currently features metaphysical businesses in the tristate. Please support your local spiritual community!
Don't know Burnet Woods or just want to see Cincinnati from outer space? Copy and Paste the following really long URL into your address bar to get a Google satellite map to the Labyrinth:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Burnet+Woods+Cincinnati&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.626896,59.238281&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=39.140646,-84.516706&spn=0.016077,0.028925&t=h&om=1
