who was minotaur?

Answer 1

-= a monster with the body of a man and head of a bull that lived in the Cretan labyrinth and was fed human sacrifices until it was killed by Theseus.
-= his mother was Pasiphae, queen of Crete.
-= the minotaur was a bull-like creature that the greek gods created as a guard for icarus and daedalus ... they were father and son; prisoners on the isle of crete, i think.
anyway, icarus made wings for himself and his son and they flew away, but the wings were held together with wax and daedalus flew too close to the sun, fell into the ocean and died. i am pretty sure i got that right...

Answer 2

The Minotaur was a half-man, half-bull. The wife of king Minos of Crete (rivals of the Greeks) was tricked into sex with a bull, and gave birth to the Minotaur. Minos locked the monster up in the labyrinth beneath the his palace, and sacrificed captive Greeks to it once a year. Theseus, a Greek prince, volunteered to go as a sacrifice one year, and ended up killing the Minotaur and freeing Greece from king Minos.

Answer 3

Minotaur: The head of a bull with the body of a man. The name means "bull of Minos."

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monster, half man and half bull, the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull sent to Minos from Poseidon. The Minotaur lived in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus at Knossos, and its victims were seven girls and seven youths, sent in annual tribute by Athens, until Theseus, sent in one contingent with the express purpose of freeing Athens from tribute, killed the Minotaur, and with the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, found his way back out of the Labyrinth.

This beast was described in the legend of Theseus. It was the child of the Cretan Bull (which Hercules slew) and the queen of Minos. The Minotaur (properly named Asterion) lived in the Labyrinth, which was a huge maze. Each year, the Athenians would send 7 boys and 7 girls for the monster to eat. Theseus went into the Labyrinth, unrolling a ball of thread so that he could find his way out, and killed the Minotaur.

Related to:
Arzshenk- Iranian version of the Minotaur. King of the demons.

Shen-Nung- Chinese emperor with the head and horns of a bull. Introduced agriculture to China.

The Bucentaur- the opposite of the Minotaur- has a human head and torso, on the body of a bull.

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was said to be part man and part bull. It dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur. He and his son Icarus were ordered to build it. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur

"Minotaur" is Greek for "Bull of Minos". The bull was known in Crete as Asterion, a name shared with Minos's foster father.

Answer 5

Minotaur, in Greek mythology, monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man. It was the offspring of Pasiphaë, queen of Crete, and a snow-white bull the god Poseidon had sent to Pasiphaë's husband, King Minos. When Minos refused to sacrifice the beast, Poseidon made Pasiphaë fall in love with it. After she gave birth to the Minotaur, Minos ordered the architect and inventor Daedalus to build a labyrinth so intricate that escape from it without assistance would be impossible. Here the Minotaur was confined and fed with young human victims Minos forced Athens to send him as tribute. The Greek hero Theseus was determined to end the useless sacrifice and offered himself as one of the victims. When Theseus reached Crete (Kríti), Minos's daughter Ariadne fell in love with him. She helped him escape by giving him a ball of thread, which he fastened to the door of the maze and unwound as he made his way through it. When he came upon the sleeping Minotaur, he beat the monster to death and then led the other sacrificial youths and maidens to safety by following the thread back to the entrance.

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Answer 6

the Minotaur is sometimes thought to have originated from Minos himself. I remember reading that he was prone to chasing sacrifices throughout the castle of crete, called the Labryinth due to all the Pictures of Labrys (two bladed axe) on the walls, while wearing a bull head/ bull head mask.

Answer 7

Medusa, the minotaur is out of the question for me Theseus replaced into one sturdy guy and he did catch him on a sneak attack so it may be sorta out of the question. And for a no longer so combating sturdy sorta individual it may be Medusa with technologies as we communicate we could get glasses and weapons to make it extra convenient...yet does no longer it relatively is extra convenient for the Minotaur...

Answer 8

It means "Minos' bull," and it refers to a monster, a human with the head of a bull, that King Minos of Crete kept at the center of the labyrinth to guard his treasure.

Answer 9

a man with a bulls head.

Answer 10

a mythological creature