Minotaur (Mythology)

"...there lived a certain dreadful monster, called a Minotaur, which was shaped partly like a man and partly like a bull, and was altogether such a hideous sort of a creature that it is really disagreeable to think of him."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the early days of Minos' reign, the king of Crete begged Poseidon to aid him by showing support through a snow white bull. Minos was to kill the bull, but lied to Poseidon and instead slaughtered one of his own once Minos took the throne from his brothers. Aphrodite punished the king of Crete by having his wife come overwhelmed with lust for the bull, conceiving an unnatural child with the bull. Minos had Daedalus to create a large maze for the beast, now dubbed the Minotaur, part man and part bull.

Minos would later go to war with Athens, where he bested the Athenians. As tribute for sparring the city, Minos demanded seven young virgins and seven tributes to be sacrificed and sent to Crete, where they would be fed to the Minotaur. For several years this happened, the Athenians living in terror as this mysterious Minotaur devoured their children.

It was not until the entering of Theseus, the son of Aegeus, did the Minotaur's reign of terror end. As the lots were drawn to feed the Minotaur, Theseus volunteered to fight the hybrid monster. Thrown into the Labyrinth with the 13 other tributes, Theseus dualed with the Minotaur in a devastating battle. After much struggle, the Minotaur was finally overcome when Theseus grabbed the charging Minotaur by the horn, snapping it's neck and then impaling it on its own horn.

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