Katherine Addison in her “Witness for the Dead” books has a religious cult that has a corn maze that people use for spiritual contemplation. I find this very cool.
The use of labyrinths for religious contemplation goes back quite a ways, though of course they are generally just a pattern laid out on the ground, rather than being a walled maze. At my own church it is just a stone path.
Both times the corn maze appears in the books, the corn has already been harvested–but people continue to use the maze, so it’s really more like the kind of labyrinth you’re describing.
Katherine Addison in her “Witness for the Dead” books has a religious cult that has a corn maze that people use for spiritual contemplation. I find this very cool.
The use of labyrinths for religious contemplation goes back quite a ways, though of course they are generally just a pattern laid out on the ground, rather than being a walled maze. At my own church it is just a stone path.
Both times the corn maze appears in the books, the corn has already been harvested–but people continue to use the maze, so it’s really more like the kind of labyrinth you’re describing.