...red the Minotaur was originally calm and sent from Poseidon, but the king (Minos) whom it was sent to fell out of favour with Poseidon, and so in some vers
The myth of Poseidon sending the bull (which seduced Minos' wife) may simply be an earlier version of the myth of Zeus seducing Europa
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...t dwelt in the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur. The a
...inos". The bull was also known as Asterius or Asterion, a name shared with Minos's foster father.
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...a and Melissa ("honey"), whom Lactantius takes to be the daughters of King Minos. There are earlier stories of the child Zeus being nourished by sacred bees
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...r version Talos came to Crete with Zeus to watch over his love Europa, and Minos received him as a gift from her.
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#Deucalion, son of Minos '''H'''
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...carried her on his back to the island of Crete where she bore three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. Zeus also took as a lover the Trojan prince Gan
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...nomy''. Orion was the son of the sea-god Poseidon and Euryale, daughter of Minos, King of Crete. Orion could walk on the waves because of his father; he wal
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...e palace of Hades and Persephone sit the three judges of the Underworld: [[Minos]], [[Rhadamanthys]] and [[Aeacus]]. There at the trivium sacred to [[Hecate
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All of the condemned sinners are judged by Minos, who sentences each soul to one of the lower eight circles. These are struc
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