Thursday, June 28, 2007

Bernard Picart Engraving

Minos

Minos, son of Licasto and Iton, powerful king of 'island of Crete , married Pasiphae, and she had six children including Ariadne, Phaedra , Androgeus and Glauco .
Promise to Poseidon to sacrifice everything that had come from the sea to Crete, but did not want to sacrifice a beautiful white bull that Poseidon had sent the same.
Aphrodite, for revenge of Pasiphae, wife of Minos, who made sacrifices in his honor, inspired a 'insane passion for that white bull, which gave birth to the Minotaur .

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