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Minotaur

Beings · Myth & story

The bull-headed being of Cretan story kept in a labyrinth. Not every bull-man image and not the maze as architecture.

Also known as Minotauros

Hellenic religion

  • Minotaur appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias reports the Cretan Minotaur kept in the labyrinth at Knossos as Greek local story. Attested in that periegesis, not every bull-man image and not the maze as architecture.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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