Labyrinth at Butler Park
Austin, Texas, United States
In Austin's Butler Park, in the city greenbelt below the ballet's hill, a permanent public labyrinth lies among the park's gardens and overlooks. It is the capital's civic walk, open at all park hours.
In Austin's Butler Park, in the city greenbelt below the ballet's hill, a permanent public labyrinth lies among the park's gardens and overlooks. It is the capital's civic walk, open at all park hours. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a Medieval Chartres-style path; installed 2007.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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