mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur. Rhaetia, Switzerland.]].]], a threefold seed pattern with a spiral at the centre, one of the troop formations employed at the battle of Kurukshetra, as recounted in the Mahabharata.]], the "Man in the Maze", a popular design in Native American basketry.]] In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Gk. ?????????? labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it.Penelope Reed Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth, p 36. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread, literally the "clew," or "clue," to wind his way back again. The term labyrinth is oft

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