<HTML>Hi Chris:
Forgive the levity in this post as I do not mean to distract from your post's excellent content but you wrote:
"One interesting little enigmatic detail in all this is the basic maze
pattern that crops up unexpectedly around the world. There is one 18m in
diameter on the Isle of Gothland, Finland and another on the coast of
Finland."
As an "Alternative Thinker" I would conclude that this must represent that mankind has always been lost in " a maze" and that the Minotaur and the maze in which it gets trapped actually represents all of us and our journey through life and that the ancients knew it far better than we today.
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I will respond much more appropriately to your great post a little later.
Best Regards
Don Barone</HTML>