Sorry, had to redraft. My app is not having fun with the edits.
A thought I've been chewing on after a particularly vivid dream: I wonder if the minotaur in the maze was a symbol of the internal human struggle between our needs in both a wild and a built world and how those structures, like cities, are overwhelming and oppressive while simultaneously being isolating and entrapping. Or perhaps a symbol of domesticates being trapped between two worlds...
I'm open to more takes. I haven't looked at Campbell's stuff in at least a decade and I'd love some new interpretations. His models can be useful for a perspective to add to the bucket, but of course they are dated now.
His models aren't at all useful because either you apply them as written (in which case it's trivial to find stories from antiquity that don't match it) or you loosen literally every element (additionally making each of them optional) in which case it's like astrology: so vague it can fit anything with no predictive or analytical value.
Have you heard of the 1954 Hague Convention? It creates a world-wide general system of cultural property protection in armed conflict. Less well known are the systems of "Special Protection" (1954 Convention) and "Enhanced Protection" (1999 Second Protocol) intended to protect designated exceptional sites.