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He sailed to Crete, whereupon Minos gave Heracles permission to take the bull away [3] as he had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls. Heracles captured the bull, and then shipped him to Eurystheus in Tiryns. The bull later broke loose and wandered into Marathon, becoming known as the "Marathonian Bull". [3]
Daedalus constructing the wooden cow which Pasiphaë uses to mate with the Cretan Bull (17th cent) Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull (19th cent.) by Gustave Moreau. Pasiphaë is a major antagonist in Rick Riordan's 2013 fantasy novel The House of Hades. In this novel, she is portrayed as an immortal sorceress and former wife of the late King Minos.
The bull mated with the wooden cow, and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, again named Asterius, [22] the Minotaur, half-man half bull. Daedalus then built a complicated "chamber that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way" [ 23 ] called the Labyrinth , and Minos put the Minotaur in it.
The Cretan wildcat is a member of the genus Felis that inhabits the Greek island of Crete. Its taxonomic status is unclear at present, as some biologists consider it probably introduced, or a European wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris ), or a hybrid between European wildcat and domestic cat ( F. catus ). [ 1 ]
The word "Minotaur" derives from the Ancient Greek Μινώταυρος [miːnɔ̌ːtau̯ros] a compound of the name Μίνως and the noun ταῦρος tauros meaning ' bull ', [9] thus it is translated as the ' Bull of Minos '. In Crete, the Minotaur was known by the name Asterion (Ἀστερίων) or Asterius (Ἀστέριος), [10 ...
Ophiotaurus (Bull-Serpent): a creature part bull and part serpent. Ouroboros: an immortal self-eating, circular being. The being is a serpent or a dragon curled into a circle or hoop, biting its tail. Panes: a tribe of nature spirits that had the heads and torsos of men, the legs and tails of goats, goatish faces, and goat-horns.
Mako is a pit bull but he's only interested in hanging out with his family's cats.
Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë of Crete, and thus sister to Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Xenodice, Glaucus and Catreus and half-sister to the Minotaur. She was the wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas .