Minotaur

This is an animated minotaur drawing. The minotaur was an offspring of a human and a bull. The king of Crete, Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow- white bull as a sign of approval by the gods. He said that he would sacrifice the bull as a. A snow -white was presented, but the King grew fond of the bull and decided to keep it for himself. This angered Poseidon and made the wife of Minos(Pasiphae) to fall in love with the bull and their child was Minotaur. She nursed it when it was a baby, but soon grew ferocious and Minos had Daedalus construct a labyrinth in which the creature dwelled.

One of the sons of king Minos Androgeus was killed by the Athenians in jealousy over their victory in Panatheniac festival. Sone say he was killed by the snow-white bull also known as the Cretan bull as an order from the Athenians. Minos in all his wrath avenged his son's death and won. Some other account says that Athens was condemned with a plague for killing Androgeus, and asked Minos to help them. In botth the accounts Minos asked the Athenians to sacrifice seven Athenian youths and seven maidens every nine years( some say every year) to the Minotaur to be devoured.

When the third time for sacrifices came Thesus (son of Aegus) agreed to go and slay the monster. He promised his father that he would tell the sailors to raise the white sails if he succeeded in his quest or put up black sails if he died. Thesus departed and when he was ic Crete the dauightaur of Minos Ariadne fell in love with him and helped navigate through the labyrinth.
In most accounts she gave Thesus a ball of thread, allowing him to retrace his path. Thesus killed the Minotaur with the sword of Aegus and freed the remaining Athenians.

Unfortunately, Ariadne was abondened and married Dionysus but later was killed by Artemis. While for Aegus he was waiting on the clifftop the day since Thesus left him. Unfortunately there was a terrible atorm in the sae and Thesus's ship lost all the white sails and they had to put up the black sails instead. Aegus seeing the black sails thought his son was dead and he could not suffer the grief and jumped off the cilfftop. Poor fellow.