Plutarch, ‘Parallel Lives - Life of Theseus’:‘They say that Theseus, taking boys and girls, danced a dance called the ‘Geranos’... Read More
Plutarch, ‘Parallel Lives - Life of Theseus’:
‘They say that Theseus, taking boys and girls, danced a dance called the ‘Geranos’ on the island of Delos, which he had learned from Ariadne. This dance represented the windings of the labyrinth and was performed with intricate steps and movements, to the left and to the right, as it was believed to have been the path followed in the labyrinth.’
The labyrinth is a path of constant seeking, where right is confused with left and vice versa.
The center is both the end of one journey and the beginning of another, that evokes life and rebirth, a return to the womb, a transformation, a passage.
At the center, one always finds what one seeks: the ultimate knowledge is that of oneself, the complete understanding of one’s own being.
