In the labyrinth When the Minotaur was first born, his mother Pasiphae was able to nourish him. However, as he grew, he became insatiable. As he was an unnatural creature, a hybrid of man and beast, he had no natural diet and took to eating humans. King Minos – from whose name the word “Minotaur” derives (“Bull of Minos”) – the husband of Pasiphae – consulted an oracle (some say at Delphi) in order to determine what to do with the beast. The oracle advised a maze. Daedalus – that same master craftsman and engineer who designed the contraption with which the beast was conceived, and who would later create wings for himself and his son Icarus (the best known of his projects) – created an elaborate maze to safely house the Minotaur.

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