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King Minos? Is that the minotaur guy or is that someone else? I didn't know the Icarus story was related
It's the Minotaur guy.
Poseidon gifted a white bull to Minos to be used a sacrifice, but Minos thought it was dope as hell so he sacrificed a different bull and kept the white one.
Poseidon then got Aphrodite to help him make Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, to lust for the bull as revenge for Minos not sacrificing it like he wanted him to.
Pasiphaë, desperate to get railed by said bull, gets Daedalus the inventor (and Icarus' dad) to build her a fake hollow bull she can get in in order to get her high speed rail desires sated.
Pasiphaë then gives birth to a half man half bull.
Minos makes Daedalus build him a big ass labyrinth to trap the half man half bull (Minotaur) in, and then Daedalus later gets imprisoned in there himself with Icarus.
He makes wings for them to escape from feathers and bees wax and warns his son not to fly too close to the sea or the mist will soak the wings and they'll be too heavy, nor too close to the sun, or the wax will melt and the wings will fall apart, Icarus dies.
I have so many questions. First of all, thank you for the lore!
Does the word "pacifist" derive from the beastiality woman's name? And was the ancient torture device where they shove a person inside a metal bull that gets lit on fire inspired by this story? What did Icarus do to get incarcerated alongside his dad? What ever happened to the not-sacrificed bull?
You don't have to answer any of these btw haha. What a bizarre story. I can see why they left it out of Hades.
I think the bronze bull that people would get thrown into and boiled was to worship Moloch. Different part of the world
Why is my comment yellow
That makes sense. It's weird how ancient people were all about making bullsuits.
Your comment's piss-colored as a reference to how pissed off Minos was when his bull cheated on him. The devs above are big mythology fans you see so they put it in the latest Lemmy version update.