There seem to be four main groups of such mazes. The black dot at the bottom of the maze is you. Whenever you go over a colored dot, the gate of that color will shift in the direction indicated on the dot. Labyrinths And Mazes A sub group of sacred geometrical figures, labyrinths are magical mazes or networks of paths often hedges - essentially giant puzzles. Labyrinths are different from mazes.
Labyrinths are unicursal.
They have one well-defined path that leads us into the center and back out again. Mazes, on the other hand, are multicursal. They offer a choice of paths, some with many entrances and exits. Mazes challenge the choice-making part of ourselves. Mid Atlantic Geomancy a whole section on labyrinths, including information about how to draw them, the names of the parts, their relationship to colours and chakras, and his simple but effective labyrinth mediation technique.