The book you are holding in your hands is dedicated to one of the most ancient and truly mysterious sacred signs of the European North (and perhaps the whole world) - the symbol of the labyrinth. The book is so unusual that it is difficult to compare it with other works about labyrinths: it does not fit into the usual patterns. Its author, Ernst Krause, a man of the highest culture and erudition, was not formally a cultural scientist or linguist, and therefore his brilliant study in the field of ancient mythology, published in the 19th century, turned out to be completely forgotten - all over the world .A German ariosophist-Slavophile (an incomprehensible combination!), he was convinced that epic and fairy-tale Slavic stories were older than Homer’s Iliad! Krause believed that it was the Slavs who, in their purest form, preserved the forgotten Nordic myth of the labyrinth - the myth of the beautiful Solar Virgo, inseparable from the very nature of the North, pure and harsh. The reader, to whom this unique book returns, will discover in a completely new way those pure and bright traditions of the peoples of Northern Europe that have become the invisible, hidden basis of the spiritual culture of the present day.