greek myths

After he ascended the трон of Crete, Minos struggled with his brothers for the right to rule. Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of approval. He was to sacrifice the бык in honor of Poseidon but decided to keep it instead because of its beauty. To punish Minos, Poseidon caused Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, to fall madly in Любовь with the бык from the sea, the Cretan Bull.She had Daedalus, the famous architect, make a wooden cow for her. Pasiphaë climbed into the decoy in order to copulate with the white bull. The offspring of their coupling was a monster called...

Pasiphae was Queen of Crete, married to Minos, but enamored of the snow-white бык Poseidon had дана her husband. Unable to restrain herself, Pasiphae prevailed upon the renowned craftsman Daedalus to construct a device by which she could fool the бык into thinking her a cow. Her plan worked; the outcome of the union between Pasiphae and the бык was a creature with a human body, but taurine head and tail. This bull-man was the Minotaur.

Before Ты go pitying her husband, thinking, "Poor cuckolded Minos," let me assure Ты that Minos was not the innocent victim of divine wrath. Poseidon had...