Turf mazes are not regarded as being prehistoric and they are not, strictly speaking, mazes at all. Mazes have many routes and dead ends and the trick is to find your way to the centre and out again. Turf mazes are labyrinths and have but one path which continually turns back on itself, but unerringly makes for the centre. The design is found on the earliest coins and seals of Crete and Egypt and so is of the greatest antiquity. However, the turf mazes are also known as "the Game of Troy", "Troy Towns", "Trojins" in Scandinavia and "shepherds races". The latter name was used by Shakespeare and as such, they probably formed the arena for a game or contest.
The designs in cathedrals are greatly elaborated versions, but essentially the same in that they have but one path. Known also as "Trip to Jerusalem" it has been suggested that they were a form of penance. After the collapse of the Crusades, it was no longer possible for wealthy knights to gain remission from Purgatory by making a perilous journey to the Holy Land. Instead, they followed the hard tiled path of the cathedral labyrinth on their knees. The local bishop set so many excruciating crawls to the centre as being equal to one "Trip to Jerusalem". Later, of course, they became mere landscape features in large gardens.
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