THE MYTH

As soon as Minos became king of Crete, he asked the gods (or Neptune in particular, as the god of the sea to dominate the lives of the islanders) for a sign that they would approve of him. The sign comes from the sea in the form of a beautiful bull. This bull asks Neptune from Minos to sacrifice him to him. Minos obeys God and deceives him by sacrificing another animal in his place.
Neptune gets angry with the deception and punishes him. In a "divine" way. Pasiphae, Minos's wife, will fall in love with the bull. Her passion for the wonderful animal remains unsatisfied. He asks for the help of engineer Daedalus. He manufactures a cow model, - Damalis -, who dresses in freshly slaughtered cow skin. Passifai enters the dummy. The white bull is fooled and mates with the queen. From their union Minotaur was born. A strange being, like the union that gave him life. With a human body, head and tail of a bull.
After the oracle of the Delphi Oracle, Minos asks Daedalus to build a place where the Minotaur will be imprisoned. The inventive Daedalus again makes the Maze. Its passages are helical and exit is impossible for those who do not know. The new home of Minotaur.
In winning the war against the Athenians, Minos sentenced each year to send seven young Athenians and seven new Athenians to Crete to be looted by the Minotaur.
In fact, this blood tax reflects the onerous financial conditions that accompanied the defeat of the Athenians.
Following on from this unique myth, Theseus, son of the King of Athens Aegean, does not tolerate this sacrifice. He decides to end it by going to Crete to kill Minotaur. Theseus' father, Aegean, had asked him if he would kill Minotaur to put white sails on the ship and lower the blacks.
Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, falls in love with Theseus. She asks him to promise her that he will take her with him to Athens and marry her. A tangle of rope - Ariadne's Mitto - is her gift to Theseus. Entering the Labyrinth, he unleashes it so he can find the way out, once he has killed the Minotaur. Theseus promises, takes Mito, kills the Minotaur after a fierce battle and, following the rope, comes out a winner.
But out of joy he forgets to climb the white sails and as soon as his father sees the black sails from afar he thinks his son is killed, falls into the sea and drowned. Since then the sea has been called the Aegean Sea, the sea of ​​Greece.

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