O dark eyes grants me, you pitch dark night,
which I will use as I seek for light.

Except that I even don’t conclude now. We have the WWII metaphor and we start with letters DUNK, which place do you think of? And when you explore and compare the skeleton key of the trap, with the skeleton key of the loop and the latter’s exit outside (metaphorically those directly above us), we get “9 to 18″, or I to R. On the way getting “DUNKEL”, We just exploited loop room 3 (even something about the sphinx that, as night after evening symbolises the “man”‘s “death”, midnight or 24:00 is the death of a day, but also 0:00 or reborn outside the book of another day / another life; 24-hour format suggested in 13), which is above trap room 11. When we decend that back to 11 ,,, at the word’s end, at the “book’s end”, and C and K sound the end of the word … (Knowing the importance of “S” in the last layer’s alternative explanation, even the “extra S” in room 20, near the exit of the path could be a clue to this “end” suggestion … We have the “extra small” size “XS” for clothing, and this may indicate “remember those “S”(19) guys entrapped in room “X”(24)? Don’t just think of yourself, think “deeply”!) we get another “K”（the “bell” in 11 can be seen as “be 11″, which is tautological at first glance, but can also be used as late as now to get this “K”） … All of these point to … DUNKIRK. I would think this as the final layer I figure out: DUNKEL is just the state of this room, and DUNKIRK is the action, the actual way out – those who can think clearly even in so terrifying darkness, are those who retreat from Dunkirk alive, waiting to from a larger group and the eventual revenge against the Guide (the enforcement of revenge already covered by others somewhere in this website, I would not repeat, but “be 11″ is the first step). (Which is also the moral of “the Old Man and the Sea”, a deeply-lying message of room 3 when we go as “meta” as here)

P.S. When looking for my nickname here I even realize that the appropriate article word in German here is spelt “die” and is the word that does cause kids frightening in German-speaking countries lol
P.P.S Still hate that every time I update something here, however minor, I would get repeatedly jumpscared once I click the “Update” button

If the Minotaur is a judge of the dead, as 22 suggests, who would have granted him such authority? Why? His Maze isn’t any kind of moral judgment; did Hades want a test of wits incorporated into his kingdom for some reason?

Perhaps not, and perhaps this is just the Minotaur acting on his own, with some kind of mystical, spiritual, afterlife powers. He imitates his father by acting as a judge of the dead, but he has no actual sense of justice or concern for morality.

Then again, it only says “dozens of eyes.” That’s not very many people. And “unlimited darkness” may not mean to say literally that this is some extra-spatial, infinite expanse. It might just mean it’s dark all around and always. And these might just be the recent victims of the Minotaur.

Is that a possibility worth considering? Could the Maze exist not in a mythological afterlife, but on a mythological Earth?

Oh, no, probably not, because the Minotaur died.

I suspect 24 is included more for aesthetic reasons than puzzle design. Given Manson’s desire to paint the Guide as sinister, his Maze needs to do something worse than just waste your time.