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        Le forme dei labirinti 
        "La categoria dei simboli [...] 
        così difficile da interpretare, s'impone [...] a noi in via extralogica, 
        proprio come verità di fede. Essi, si potrebbe dire, sono improntati 
        nella nostra psicologia come qualcosa di atavico e di autonomo.Naturalmente, 
        la stella come simbolo celeste, il labirinto come processo di iniziazione, 
        il disco come immagine solare, come schema grafico, sono anch'essi dei 
        simboli convenzionali, o almeno lo furono all'inizio. Ma evidentemente 
        vennero subito investiti da concomitanti emotive così intense da 
        esaltarne subito la funzione. In molte civiltà, tracciare uno di 
        questi segni è considerato un fatto magico o sacro, cioè 
        gli si attribuisce la capacità di agire sulle forze che rappresentano, 
        e non solo di indicarle a chi guarda. La loro vitalità, che si 
        è rivelata quasi perenne, dipende proprio dalla loro capacità 
        di concentrare entro un nucleo semplice e compatto un altissimo tasso 
        di esperienze misteriose, oscillanti fra il tremendo e il sublime. Sono, 
        in altre parole, non la registrazione di una nozione, ma il ricordo e 
        lo stimolo di uno choc emotivo. Ce lo conferma la storia di taluni simboli, 
        come viene a mano a mano delineandosi.  
        Il labirinto risulterebbe così connesso con il percorso iniziatico, 
        compiuto presumibilmente al buio entro grotte tortuose, artificialmente 
        elaborate, in modo da condurre al santuario attraverso successive prove 
        [...]  
        Tutti questi simboli sono pertanto insostituibili, in quanto creano un 
        concetto; non solo lo rappresentano [...] Ecco perché [...] una 
        volta creati, non poterono essere ne sostituiti, ne cancellati." 
      Eugenio Battisti, «I simboli categoriali», 
        Almanacco letterario Bompiani,  
        citato ne Il Libro dei Labirinti di Paolo Santarcangeli, Frassinelli. 
      
         
        
        
       
         
        Le immagini dei labirinti sono tratte da: 
         
         
         https://www.labyrinthsociety.org 
         https://www.questpublish.com 
         https://www.westminsterdayton.org 
         https://reid_j.tripod.com/FengShui/labnancy.htm 
         https://www.labyrinth-enterprises.com 
         https://www.classics.uwaterloo.ca 
         https://www.geomancy.org/labyrinths 
         https://www.labyreims.com 
         https://www.knowth.com 
         https://www.mtholyoke.edu 
         https://www.labyrinth-kiel.de 
         https://www.labyrinth.ed.ac.uk 
         https://www.labyrinth-international.org 
         https://www.jhu.edu/~chaplain/Labyrinth.shtml 
         https://www.das-labyrinth.de 
         https://www.artlex.com 
         https://www.labyrinthos.net 
         https://www.labirinto.de 
         https://www.ulib.iupui.edu 
         https://www.darkmoon3d.com 
         https://www.bc.edu/friends/alumni/labyrinth 
         https://www.labyrinth.fi 
         https://www.cdly.org/labyrinth 
         https://garryoakswine.com/about/labyrinth.php 
         https://garryoakswine.com 
         https://www.allwalks.org 
         https://www.muenchen-supervision.de/labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.uukam.bc.ca/labyrinth/labyrinth.htm 
         https://uumia.org/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.das-labyrinth.at/labyrinth/labindex.htm 
         https://www.farviewfarms.com/files/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.lakeshorewaco.org/Labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.manchester.edu 
         https://www.chaplaincy.ed.ac.uk/chaplaincy/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.annieshavercrandell.com/collage.html 
         https://www.lorettocenter.org/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/studium/studienbeginn.php3.de 
         https://www.lightonthehill.org/labnth.cfm 
         https://www.labyrinth.kics.bc.ca/creation.htm 
         https://www.unitya2.org 
         https://www.thehealingcoop.org/Photos.htm 
         https://www.cavardiras.ch/Orte%20der%20Kraft.htm 
         https://www.gracecathedral.org/calendar/category.php?cid=5 
         https://www.soulinvitation.com/labyrinth 
         https://www.pittsburghdiary.com/sept/labyrinth/laby.htm 
         https://www.pineislandpresbyterian.org/finger.htm 
         https://www.ipass.net/wystle/sgr/facilities.htm 
         https://www.geomancygroup.org/gallery_1.html 
         https://home.student.uu.se/elvi8028/labyrinth.html 
         https://campwestminster.com/retreat_lab.php 
         https://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/smc/labyrinth/gallery/azscc.html 
         https://eu.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10022917/sp--A/Labyrinth_Medallion.htm 
         https://www.stjohnsroanoke.org/html/Labyrinth.html 
         https://www.northshorerescue.com/mtLogon.html 
         https://www.synodoflivingwaters.com/the_voice/0506/03b-labyrinth.html 
         https://www.ssmt-reviews.com/db/searchrev.php?artistID=645&showReview=true 
         https://www.fandc.org/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.thewoodedway.com/Labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.oxonart-schools.org 
         https://www.stelisabethsglencoe.org/St_E_Labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.anima-international.net/labyrinth.php 
         https://www.labyrinthmidwife.com 
         https://elmwoodinn.com/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.derkleinegarten.de/grabmal_denkmal_symbol.htm 
         https://www.unitariancamps.org 
         https://trecento.com/pics/locations/lucca 
         https://www.calvin.edu/admin/student_life/news/2004-spring.htm 
         https://www.cavardiras.ch/cavardiras9.htm 
         https://www.borderlandsranch.org/labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.saragrahi.org 
         https://www.math.nus.edu.sg 
         https://www.flybynews.com/bartjordan/labyrinth.html 
         https://www.ilportalesardo.it/archeo/ssbenetutti2.htm 
         https://www2.polito.it 
         https://www.egreenway.com/meditation/labyrinth.htm 
         https://www.crystalinks.com/labyrinths.html 
         https://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk 
         https://www.cs.utk.edu 
         https://www.labyreims.com 
         https://mmmgroup.altervista.org/i-labiri.html 
         https://news2000.libero.it/webmagazine/5108.jhtml 
         https://www.auraweb.it/articolo_benessere.asp?cid=6&aid=619 
         https://www.silvioferrari.com/fotografie/Pics/ravenna/05.jpg 
         https://web.tiscali.it/fudoshinama/grano/grano.htm 
         https://murraycreek.net/labyrinth/lunarlaby.htm 
         https://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/ml/ml11.htm 
         https://www.labyrinth-enterprises.com/index.html 
         https://www.anishinabe-spiritual-centre.org/Scenes.htm 
         https://www.himalayanvoices.com/Arizona.htm 
         https://www.artconsult.pl/1768559742.php 
         https://www.labyrinthsociety.org 
         https://www.edicolaweb.net/edic086a.htm 
         https://www.terra.com.br/planetanaweb/358/materias/358_segredos_labirinto2.htm 
         
         https://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/L.html  
         https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labirinto_(architettura) 
        "Dentro e fuori il labirinto." di Francesca Romana Lepore, 
        Idea Libri  
         https://www.green-island-tours.de 
         https://www.altjessnitz.de/irrgarten 
         https://olharfeliz.typepad.com/jardin/architecture/index.html 
         https://www.gartenreich.com/de/besuchen/schloesser-und-gaerten/mosigkau/index.html 
         https://www.larsjoernzimmer.de 
         https://www.volny.cz/pohribny/maj.site/pagess/kamenne24.html  
         https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1189.cfm 
         https://murraycreek.net/labyrinth/lunarlaby.htm 
         https://www.labyrinthos.net/photo08.htm 
         https://www.istockphoto.com 
         https://www.spa-centre.com/centre.html 
         https://www.3dpeople.net/easyweb/0000000818/index.htm 
         https://www.seacoastonline.com/2002news/photo11_17e.htm 
         https://www.saundersfarm.com 
         https://www.stjohn.org/VanElslander/Labryrinth 
         https://www.flickr.com 
         https://entropy.homelinux.org/events/raves/nye2k3/index.html 
         https://www.calvin.edu/academic/phys/observatory/images/Astr212.Spring2005 
         https://www.greatdreams.com/ccdrm.htm 
         https://www.crystalinks.com/crop2000.html 
         https://www.screamingpoints.com/archives/2004_03.html 
         https://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/crop_circles_history02a.html 
         https://www.gregorymullerassoc.com/mosaic.htm 
         https://www.adventdigital.net/ASP-Photos/PhotoAlbum.asp 
         https://www.lancashiremcs.org.uk/gallery/fanworm.html 
         https://irelandsown.net/spiral.html 
         https://www.envirohealthtech.com  
         https://www2.polito.it 
         https://www.italianopera.org 
         https://jozefpronek.livejournal.com 
         https://www.giovannipasetti.it 
         https://www.en.utexas.edu 
         https://craig.best.vwh.net/bosch.htm  
       
        
      Inserito nel sito www.ilcerchiodellaluna.it 
        l'8 agosto 2006 
      
      
      
      
        
       
         
       
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