The Weird Origin of the Terrible Minotaur - Greek Mythology - See U in History

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The Origin of the Terrible Minotaur - Greek Mythology - See U in History

Art: Clayton Inloco

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Daedalus every time he appears in this whole story: "You want me to build WHAT?!"

andrewquilpa
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I love how a lot of these stories boil down to the God's telling someone to do a very specific thing and the humans thinking "Nah" What's the worst that could happen?

Cuchulainn
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Minos be like "That sacred bull could breed some great cattle!"
Poseidon be like "You want him to breed, do you?"

christianali
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When Minos sacrificed an ordinary bull instead, an enraged Poseidon said "This is bull**** !"

Monatio
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So, you ask the God of the Sea for a bull, specifically for sacrifice. Then you keep the bull and sacrifice another? That's how you end up with the starring role in a Greek tragedy.

ajvanmarle
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“Achieve her union with the Minos bull”… classy phrasing.

BojackMilroy
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I still can not get over how most fetishes find their base in greek mythology

louiscq
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I wish I had half of Daedelus' ingenuity. The man constructed a whole human-sized Labyrinth.

madambutterfly
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Minos is the type of guy to say “Judgment!” And proceeds to drop kick you

sillygooberbutsillier
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The word "clue" came from "clew" meaning "ball of twine/yarn", which Ariadne gave to Theseus to navigate through the labyrinth. She gave him a clew/clue. It's a string of hints that guides you closer to finding your answer. 😊 Ariadne didn't come up with the idea, though. She begged Daedalus to help Theseus escape the labyrinth and that's when he gave her specific instructions on using the ball of twine in the maze. I can't remember if he also gave her the yarn as well or if he only gave her the instructions. I learned this over 15 years ago so my memory is a bit foggy on this last part.

Kaniwani
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Imagine being Daedalus and one day the Queen comes in asking for your help to get a bull to plow her and your like "sure why not?"

Doctor
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as soon as I saw them making a fake cow, I instantly knew where this was going

ackthualyimsmarterthanyou
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Should've sacrificed the bull, to avoid all of that.

kidtacularKIDS
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the timeline where minos doesn't say "JUDGEMENT!" and performing explosive drop kick at a blue robot with gopro head then get parried

JohnsonPea
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When I was a kid, i loved greek mythology. I took out every book to read.
What was strange to me was when I was young, in 4th -7th grade, there were all these references to Zeus "kidnapping" women.
When I went to college, I was surprised that all these kidnappings and Zeus "taking" a bride were actually called R44Pes.

iunderstanphotography
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The Minotaur is just an unloved child who was locked away forever by his parents. Poor thing

bennu
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Yup, that's weird.

The story goes that one of Minos' sons -- Androgeos -- went to Athens for athletic games. Various versions have it that he won all the prizes, and was murdered for jealousy; or that he was set up to be killed by one of THEIR bulls -- it may have even been an accident, which Minos didn't believe.

But that's why 7 Athenian men and 7 women were required (every year? every 7 years?) to be sacrificed.

Ancient Greece had a thing for bulls: note one constant in all the stories is that Zeus disguises himself as a bull to do Europa (or was she changed into a cow -- first, or later?); then Minos (the son of a ... bull-god?) asks Poseidon for a sacrifice, who gives him a bull; then he cheats the god of the sea so his wife falls in love with the... bull; and he winds up with the Minotaur.

Aurochs ruled.

pauldonnelly
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If he was smart he would have breeded the white bull then sacrificed it.

tutAngel
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Little known fact but the Minotaur actually had a proper name. His mother named him Asterion or Asterius depending on which translation you read. Apparently it was in honor of the child’s maternal grandfather of the same name.

LordOmnissiah
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Ahh... free at last. O Gabriel, now dawns thy reckoning, and thy gore shall GLISTEN before the temples of Man! Creature of Steel, my gratitude upon thee for my freedom. But the crimes thy kind have committed against humanity are NOT forgotten! And thy punishment... is DEATH.

Sine_Vox