New Labyrinths

USA

Marty Cain is one of America's most prolific labyrinth builders. This temporary one she installed at the Harvard/Radclife Quadrangle. The yellow lines mark underground veins of water. There are tunnels connecting the various buildings on this quadrangle, and in the tunnels, she marked the veins as well

This is a temporary feather labyrinth that Marty made also in Boston in 1994 as a Peace Labyrinth. She has built over one-hundred-and-thirty labyrinths in the US, Brazil and in South Africa and she dowses each one for location, orientation and shape. She's one of the best.

A magical maze by Alex Champion. a builder of interesting maze/labyrinths in California. Even though this is not a labyrinth, it is definately magical, and, if you're following the flow, there is only one path, and magic will happen!

This is a Classical Seven Circuit Labyrinth built for the Sancta Sophia Seminary in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Sig Lonegren, who helped locate her Light of Christ Community Church is standing next to Carol Parrish, the spiritual teacher, who is the head of the Seminary.

A number of labyrinths were constructed as a result of a Sacred Space school Sig taught in Vermont. This one is called Randy's Labyrinth, and it was made by an artist who was interested in recording her project at different times of the year. Note the remnants of the Winter's snow.

The Otto Labyrinth in at the Mountain Valley Center, and was open to the public in April 1998. It is made of 10 tons of stone and sits in a high energy spot with a creek on two sides, a pond on the third and a hillside of mountain laurel above.

Information and Directions can be found here.

This one was made by Lynn Shelton as a final project for one of Sig Lonegren's Sacred Space School classes. He made it with a lawn mower - very temporary, and requires lots of upkeep. All labyrinths, regardless of what they are made of, need on-going maintenance.

New Labyrinths

New Chartres Types

The Chartres type Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. This particular new labyrinth, and its constructor, Dean Lauren Artress, have done a great deal to popularize the Chartres type labyrinth among mainline Christians in the USA. (Photo © by Cindy Pavlinac. Used with her permission.)

In Southern Wales, dowser Mrs. Elizabeth Sulivan built an extrordinary replica of the Chartres Labyrinth. It took two men two years to build, and Mrs. Sulivan dowsed for the orientation of the mouth of the labyrinth and for the location of every stone.

This is an example of a relatively new finding that labryinths used with intent draw the Earth energies to them. It isn't the building of it, but the ongoing use that draws water and energy leys to these new labyrinths. Much has been written about this labyrinth in our Summer Solstice 1996 MAG E-zine.

New Labyrinths

Modern European

This labyrinth was created in Lands End, Cornwall at the first gathering of the OakDragon Clan at Beltane in 1987. These bamboo sticks work well except when you're running and your ankle comes down on one.

A couple came to us at that camp and asked to take their vows in this labyrinth. It was an amazing event. Labyrinths are excellent tools for doing ceremony in. They can be used to begin and end ceremonies, or for the actual event itself.

These are the seven planets, one of whom marked the beginning of each of the seven paths of the labyrinth. Mars asked 'Martian' questions like, "Are you putting your energy into the correct places?" You then walked that path thinking about that question. The character in front of the planets is Charon, who charged participants a copper coin for a lift in her vesica-shaped boat to the other world of the seven planets and the labyrinth.

Here is another Goddess in the center of a labyrinth. This Sun Goddess marked the center of the Planetary labyrinth above. The oldest myths about labyrinths have women in the center rather than the male monster Minotaur.

Notice that this labyrinth is made of tennis court lime. This works fine, and keeps for several weeks. Be sure not to use gardening lime which can burn - especially when people walk it bare foot.

Fire!

This is a daytime shot of a fire labyrinth. It is a variation of the three circuit labyrinth similar to the one at Nazca. It uses sawdust and parafin/kerosene applied just before you light it.
DON'T USE GASOLINE or PETROL!!

Recent labyrinth built on the shore of Columba's Bay on the Island of Iona in the Hebrides in Scotland. This labyrinth is very popular with the pilgrims who make the journey to the southern end of this holy island. (photo by W. Howard)

While Sig was in Sweden for Mid-Summer 1995, a number of people got together to build a new labyrinth in a part of the Stockholm archipelago that has a number of older ones.

This new Swedish labyrinth is called "Trollfångere," which means "Troll Catcher" in Swedish. This was supposedly one of the functions of the Swedish fishermens' numerous labyrinths - catching Trolls! ; )