Brummet's Conscious Blog

One fine Sunday morning Dave and I began to get curious about a particular design - a concentric square labyrinth pattern  - that seemed to be appearing around us. There are several variations of the design and the more we looked for it, the more we saw it around the home and yard.  So the two of us began searching online for all the reliable sources on the meaning of this specific symbol.  The concentric square labyrinth pattern, which is known as the Greek Key symbol today, has been used for centuries by many ancient cultures including the Asian, Aztec, Byzantine, Etruscan, Greek, Native American, and Roman peoples to decorate buildings, art, jewelry and clothing.  When the design appears as a straight line of interconnected Greek Keys, it known as a Meander (after an ancient river in what is now known as Turkey).  Meanders symbolized protection and health, and the unbroken path to infinity and reproduction - and therefore it was commonly used as a building ...