Minos is central to the myths of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur (born to his wife Pasiphaë), and the Athenian tribute of youths.
In Greek mythology the Minotaur was a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
Minos’s wife, Pasiphaë, fell in love with the bull (through a curse) and gave birth to the Minotaur.
They were sent into the Labyrinth and killed by the Minotaur.
The hero Theseus eventually entered the Labyrinth, killed the Minotaur, and found his way out with the help of a thread given to him by Minos’s daughter Ariadne.
Atlantean Experiment Theory - Centaurs, Minotaur, Mermaids
Minos would later become the legendary king of Crete, known for his association with the labyrinth and the Minotaur.
This resulted in the infamous tribute, in which Athens was forced to send seven young men and seven young women every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, a creature kept in the labyrinth designed by Daedalus in Knossos, Crete.
Theseus, son of Ægeus, eventually ended this gruesome practice by slaying the Minotaur, becoming a significant hero in Athenian lore and the stories surrounding Minos.
On the island of Crete, you will see an ancient Atlantean colony in that temple, which is known as The Labyrinth Temple. The legend of the Minotaur says that the Atlanteans were bull worshippers, so the idea is that they adopted some of the Grecian architecture but still retained something quite different.
One of the most famous myths is that of the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull, who resided in the labyrinth of Crete.
Athens was forced to send seven young men and seven young women every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur
Modern art, from Foster Bible pictures through Flaubert’s Salammbô and film Cabiria, blends that rabbinic picture with Diodorus-style Carthaginian Cronus sacrifice and sometimes Minotaur or brazen-bull folklore.