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Lye Church Labyrinth Graffito is a rock-carved labyrinth in Gotland Island, Sweden. The design is a classical 7circuit layout with 7 circuits, 8 walls, built of rock carving. Documented age: 13th-14th century (13th-14th century). Current condition: intact. A 12-wall labyrinth graffito inside Lye Church, a medieval limestone church on Gotland dating to the 13th century. Church labyrinths in Scandinavia typically appear as wall carvings or painted designs, serving as meditation aids or protective symbols. Documentation sources: Saward 2003, Nordic Church Labyrinths. Listed in the surveyed catalogue as one node in a larger global registry of the same single design. The labyrinth is one of several hundred sites of this type catalogued globally; each preserves the same unicursal walking-pattern with regional variation in scale, material, and date.
The labyrinth tradition spans at least 4,000 years of documented practice across northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the British Isles, North America, and the Indian subcontinent.