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Gedemo Labyrinth Improvement

This mod adds a new Improvement to all major civs: The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth, which, placed in geographically strategic places, will help you to slow down the advance of your enemies on your territory.

Mining unlocks the Builder ability to construct a Labyrinth. Until the discovery of The Enlightenment, it is buildable on flat terrains without features. +1 Culture. The Labyrinth gives another +1 additional Culture whith the discovery of Drama and Poetry. Grants -2 Appeal. Cannot be constructed adjacent to another Labyrinth. You can have only one Labyrinth per city. The cost of Movements of hostile units adjacent or on the tile increases by 1 points. Occupying unit receives +4 Defense Strength.

History:

The oldest representation of a labyrinth was found in a Siberian tomb dating from the Paleolithic: it is a maze of seven convolutions, surrounded by four double spirals, all engraved on a piece of mammoth ivory. These tracks are inscribed in squares or circles, accompanied by drawings of bears, birds or snakes. The oldest labyrinth was built, according to Herodotus, by Amenemhat III, pharaoh of the 12th dynasty, who had the project of building near Lake Moeris, his monumental palace, comprising a suite of 3,000 rooms and corridors on several levels . This labyrinth is said to have been constructed for the Egyptians to remember the names of their twelve kings and to celebrate the dodecarchy. This building would have inspired Daedale for the construction of the prison which was to contain the Minotaur. The Greek historian Herodotus also speaks of the labyrinth of Egypt as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, so large and so wonderful that the great pyramid would appear very modest by its side. We find in Crete, the island of King Minos, the labyrinth of the Minotaur built by Daedalus; it was indeed on the order of this king that it was built, in order to lock up the monstrous creature born of the love of Queen Pasiphae and a bull. Archaeological research carried out in Crete on the Minoan palaces, in particular that of Knossos, effectively reveals extensive constructions, whose overall plan is complex. The myth of the Labyrinth could only be a transposition of this architectural complexity. Apart from the legend of the Minotaur, the labyrinth, as a symbol of a long and difficult initiation journey, is known to many ancient civilizations, to the point that we can speak of a universal archetype: prehistoric men, Mesopotamians , the Scandinavians, the Hopis, the Navajos, the Indians, the Aborigines of Australia, the Tuaregs, the Zulus of Africa, the Jews of Palestine, the Mayans ... have drawn labyrinths. In India, the mandala is a labyrinthine figure: it is a sacred circle, within which one finds Buddhist deities. Similarly, in China, there are labyrinths engraved in the cave of T'ong T'ing, in the form of incense paths whose consumption is used to measure the passage of time. They are used mainly at night, when the sun cannot shine. In Scandinavia, it is not uncommon to find a number of labyrinths, whose walls delimiting the paths are built with stones of different dimensions. The figure of fylfot thus constructed, and founded on nine points, can be found on isolated islands. It is used for dances or traditional games. Labyrinths made of stones are common in Finland. The Romans often represent the labyrinth in mosaics in particular, as in the villa of the Labyrinth in Pompeii. We should also mention the island of Malekula in the northeast of New Caledonia, which has many labyrinths, used in sacred rites. Their center symbolizes the passage between the world of the living and that of the dead. Tracks of winding paths have been cut in the rock faces of the American desert and on the Scandinavian cliffs. Labyrinths have been created in peat in Wales and England.[NewLine]Until the Renaissance, wandering labyrinths were an object of spirituality and were only found in religious buildings. It was not until the 16th century that meanders of groves spread in many European gardens bringing the labyrinth a profane dimension: the pleasure of getting lost.

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