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06-11-2007
The MYTH of PASIPHAE and her MINOTAUR
ENGLISH - MINOS, A LEGENDARY KING OF CRETE, AROUND WHOM CENTERED THE OLDEST TALES OF THE ISLAND. CONSIDERED A JUST RULER BY MINOANS, THE GREEK MYTH SHOWS HIM AS A CRUEL TYRANT DEMANDING ANNUAL SACRIFICE OF ATHENIAN BOYS AND MAIDENS. HIS WIFE, PASIPHAE, MATED WITH A BULL AT THE INSTIGATION OF A GOD POSEIDON AND BORE THE MINOTAUR, A MONSTER, HALF MAN AND HALF BULL,WHO WAS HIDDEN IN THE LABYRINTH OF KNOSSOS, WHERE, IT WAS SAID, HE DEVOURED HUMAN FLESH.