6/27/2023 0 Comments The labyrinth jorge luis borges![]() This explains why, at the end of ‘The House of Asterion’, the Minotaur appears readily to accept his own death without offering any defence. We discuss the myth of the Minotaur in more detail in a separate post. To this day, we talk about following ‘clues’ when trying to solve a mystery. ![]() Theseus offered himself as one of the ‘tributes’ to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, but he slew the beast instead, with Ariadne, Minos’ daughter, helping him to find his way back out of the corridors of the Labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, whose clues or strands he left behind him so he could follow them and find his way out of the maze again. ![]() ![]() The Labyrinth – the first maze to be given that name – was built on Crete to keep the Minotaur contained from the rest of the populace. She ‘slept’ with the bull and the Minotaur was the resultant offspring. He also made Pasiphaë, Minos’ wife, desire the bull. Poseidon, angered by Minos’ failure to sacrifice the bull, made the bull so savage that it was a menace to Minos. The Minotaur was indeed the child of a queen: he was the product of a rather twisted coupling between Pasiphaë, Minos’ wife, and a ferocious bull. ![]()
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