Before we get started, let s define what a labyrinth is. Many people confuse labyrinths with mazes, and although the two have some common characteristics, they are fundamentally very different. A maze is mind puzzle. It has a variety of paths, twists and turns that lead nowhere, and the goal is to find your way in or to find your way out or both. A labyrinth, on the other hand, looks much like a maze in that it has twists and turns, but the similarity ends there.
Labyrinths have only one path.
They go in to the center and then you have to turn around and walk back out. There are no tricks or puzzles to figure out, only a winding path leading to the center. It seems that labyrinths have been around for over 4,000 years and have been used in many, if not most, major world religions on and off throughout the millennia. The earliest record we have of the labyrinth is from Greece specifically, Crete. The Cretan labyrinth was so popular in its culture that it was embossed on pottery and imprinted on coins.