Do you believe that Minotaur’s once lived?

Question

Do you believe that Minotaur’s once roamed this world at one time? And also where they only male's or where they both female & male?

Answer 1

of course they did other wise how would we know what they looked like

Answer 2

The version of the myth that i am familiar with is that King Minos built a labryinth which supposedly held the famous minotaur. The creature kept the city safe from its enemys by requiring a human sacrifice. Obeying this, King Minos annually sent several people into the labryinth and they were never heard from again.

Enter Theseus. He is this great hero and isn't afraid of the the minotar so he goes to Kind Minos and challeneges him: if he can beat the labryinth and kill the minotaur then the king would abdicate al power over to Theseus' kingdom.

The king, being certain that no-one could ever get out of the labryinth, agrees. The King's daughter, Ariadne, has fallen for the young hero and goes to her faither to plead for his life. The king then reveals a secret to his daighter; there is no minatour. People are led into the maze, cannot find their way out, and die.

Horrified that her father has maintained such a lie, which has resulted in the needless deaths of hundreds of her countrymen, Ariadne decides to go behind her father's back and save her hero at the same time.

She goes to Theseus and tells him the truth about the creature. Knowing his only danger is the maze, she gives him a spool of thread to take with him as he is lead into the maze, allowing him to safely find his way out.

Theseus is a proud man though and sees this as a great opportunity to boost his image. He does as Araidne planed and becomes the first person ever to leave the labryinth after being lead in.

He then announces to the stunned people that he has killed the minataur and his people now own King Minos' kingdom. The king can't very well deny publically that he has been lying to his people, so he abdicates his throne to the conquering hero.

So to answer your question: no. I don't think they ever existed.

Answer 3

Why not? Maybe there were Minotaurs at one point in history, we may never know. But then again, think about the people who were alive back then, do you think if they saw something far off that looked vaguely like a Minotaur that possibly they assumed it was and created the whole entire beast from their minds. Also consider the source, the Ancient Greeks were kings of tall-tales and story-telling. Maybe they made it all up to explain the "unexplained", or maybe they were spot-on and we humans now of days are just close-minded?

Answer 4

In myth, there was only one minotaur, which was killed by Theseus. For the myth to be true, it would have to be possible for a human woman (Pasiphae) to conceive a child fathered by a bull. That is not possible, so, no, I do not believe minotaurs ever existed.

Answer 5

No, the minotaur is half man, half bull.

This is a mythological figure, from ancient greece.

If it is a bull, by nature it can not be female. A cow is female.

Answer 6

I get all mixed up between Centaurs, Minotaurs, Satyrs, etc...but I also think that species cannot interbreed...if anybody "saw" one of these creatures, it was some form of a mutant human.

Answer 7

At one time they roamed this world. They were only male's.

Answer 8

Neither one of your questions, but we have proof of dinosaurs. Mythology stories are like a lot of other stories you can read in another book.

Answer 9

again, this is a creature of fantasy. Unless someone shows me evidence they existed, physical evidence, not stories, no I don't believe they existed

Answer 10

*sigh*
no honey. Humans can not interbreed with other species.