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  2. Minotaur - Wikipedia

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    The Minotaur is the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante encounter within the walls of Dis. [i] The Minotaur seems to represent the entire zone of Violence, much as Geryon represents Fraud in Canto XVI, and serves a similar role as gatekeeper for the entire seventh Circle. [38]

  3. Sacrificial victims of the Minotaur - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the people of Athens were at one point compelled by King Minos of Crete to choose fourteen young noble citizens (seven young men and seven young women) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the half-human, half-taurine monster Minotaur to be killed in retribution for the death of Minos' son Androgeos.

  4. Labyrinth - Wikipedia

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    An image of the Minotaur or an allusion to the legend of the Minotaur appears at the center of many of these mosaic labyrinths. The four-axis pattern as executed in Chartres Cathedral (early 1200s) The four-axis medieval patterns may have developed from the Roman model, but are more varied in how the four quadrants of the design are traced out.

  5. Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth and Banquo with the Witches by Henry Fuseli. In the play, the Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. [57] Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare's day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, "the most notorious traytor and rebell that can ...

  6. Asterius (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Asterion or Asterius, name of the Minotaur. [7] Asterion, son of Zeus and Idaea, a daughter of Minos. [8] Asterius, son of Minos and Androgenia, a girl from the Cretan city of Phaistos. He was the commander of Cretans who joined the god Dionysus in his Indian War.

  7. Three Witches - Wikipedia

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    The Three Witches represent evil, darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. They appear to have a warped sense of morality, deeming seemingly terrible acts to be moral, kind or right, such as helping one another to ruin the journey of a sailor. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom.

  8. Why Do All of My Exes Smell the Same? - AOL

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    “It’s so funny because it really does seem like everybody’s ex wears Sauvage,” Tynan Sinks, beauty writer and co-host of the perfume podcast, Smell Ya Later, told me. “Like, everybody ...

  9. Macbeth (character) - Wikipedia

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    Lord Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis and quickly the Thane of Cawdor, is the title character and main protagonist in William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1603–1607). The character is loosely based on the historical king Macbeth of Scotland and is derived largely from the account in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577), a compilation of British history.