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Updated: May 20, 2025
The first palace at Knossos dates from a period certainly as early as, probably somewhat earlier than, the Hawara temple; and since the derivation of the word 'labyrinth' from the Labrys or Double Axe, making the palace the House or Place of the Double Axe, seems quite satisfactory, the Egyptian Labyrinth in all likelihood derived its name from the House of Minos at Knossos.
But tradition linked the names of Minos and Knossos with a great and wonderful structure of Dædalus which went by the name of the Labyrinth; and the coincidence between that name and the Labrys marks on the sacred pillars and on many of the blocks in the palace at once suggested that here was the source of the old tradition, and here the actual building, the Labyrinth, which Dædalus reared for his great master.
They were apparently sacred emblems connected with the worship of a divinity, and the Double Axe markings pointed to the divinity in question. And the name of the Double Axe is Labrys a word found also in the title of the Carian Zeus, Zeus of Labraunda.
The Double Axes in the shrine again emphasized the importance in the palace worship of the Labrys, and underlined the suggestion that the Palace of Knossos is nothing more nor less than the legendary Labyrinth of Minos. The season of 1903 was marked by two important discoveries within the palace area. Of these we may first consider the so-called Theatral Area.
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