u kno its high time that people spoke up 'bout the minotaur, the half man half bull.

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i serously doubt it possible, i mean theres no way a human and a bull can have a child together, biologicly impossible

I think anything is possible... All legends are rooted in some truth.

I'm sure at one point there was a lonely human, a lonely bull, sparks flew. The rest is history.

If there was a minotaur you would find it in washington state cause man on bovine action is legal just as long as the hefer isn't harmed.

And yes it is actually legal to do such things in that state. I have heard some legislatiors are writing up a bill to change it and make it Illegal.

It is a legend of Greek myth. No such creature actually exists --- that is a half-bull half-man biped. Unless, fo course, somebody has done gene-splicing we don't know about.

The myth of the Minotaur possibly came about as the Minoans (where the mino in minotaur originates) were keen bull fighters. Where they would leap over the bulls, and perform feats of courage and acrobatics.

I'm thinking there are actually bulls that evolved differently

i doubt bulls would have evolved into the minotaur though. and like someone said a few posts ago, all the myths and legends sre supposedly linked to some truth. so it could have been possible that minotaurs did once exist.

No I do not beleive in them

That is interesting. Must look up more on that, sounds like interesting history.

I think it is simply a story, the things people used to entertain themselves with before movies and TV.



Hrrmzzz, I just don't know what to say about that.............

Oh and no, not even a little bit.

could not have happened as a Hybrid!!

However the myth may have come from a deformed man than was found out to be a freak and looked in that room

a sort of cross between the goonies and john merick (the elephant man)

That's pretty spectacular evolutionary deviation.

However, when I was a wee lad, we had a teacher called Mr McGee, and if anybody, then or now, presents evidence that he is the result of some unholy human/bovine union, I for one am not going to disagree,

"Minotaur" is Greek for "Bull of Minos".

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creature that was part man and part bull. It dwelt in the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze constructed by King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus to hold the Minotaur.

Before Minos became king, he asked the Greek god Poseidon for a sign, to assure him that he, and not his brother, was to receive the throne.

Poseidon agreed to send a white bull on condition Minos would sacrifice the bull back to the god. Indeed, a bull of unmatched beauty came out of the sea. King Minos, after seeing it, found it so beautiful that he instead sacrificed another bull, hoping that Poseidon would not notice.

Poseidon was very angry when he realized what had been done so he caused Minos's wife, Pasiphae, to be overcome with a fit of madness in which she fell in love with the bull.

Pasiphae went to Daedalus for assistance, and Daedalus devised a way for her to satisfy her passions. He constructed a hollow wooden cow covered with cowhide for Pasiphae to hide in and allow the bull to mount her. The result of this union was the Minotaur.

Minotaur

I used to work with a bloke we called "Hereford Head"

well unless things were drastically diffrent in ancient times, there wouldn't be a way to create a half bull half man creature. So Pasiphae could get her groove on as disturbing as that is and not have to worry about a bovine offspring.

Exactly

It is, always has been, and always will be a legend. No Minotaur ever existied, it is the product of story telling. No basis for belief in such a creature whatsoever.

Legends rock!!!! Love reading them, the Steven King of old
Some of those Greek Myths and legends are pretty gruesome.

that girl getting on with the bull was justed the only rational thought at the time. The gods created many races based off of things other then apes. One day they will all be brought back.

I see no reasons to believe in minotaur.

Nope i dont think it could happen...............How do i know you ask? Well i live in tennessee and ive never heard of a cow having a human baby from stump breaking......

i remember Greek Mythology...

If one wanted to argue some basis in reality for the minotaur, it could be described as a deformed child, ala john merrick, who could have over time degenerated through retellings into the half bull beast. still, it's a neat story and by far my fav monster.

maybe, never know, but they most likely died out

Well, as most of you know, most myth has some truth to it and is usually based on real-life events blown out of proportion.

Here's a possibility...a farmers wife gives birth to a kid with an abnormally large head with tiny horns protruding from the forehead. Not possible? It's happened before, there are pictures all over the Net. Nature can do some creepy stuff.

So, the farmer freaks, makes up some story about his wife bonking a bull she fell in love with and sells the horny kid to a servant of the king.

The kings people raise the kid like an animal in some dark dank dungeon until he reaches maturity, the end result, an adolecent that can only communicate through a series of grunts and moans with two awkward horns poking from his forehead and a head like Sloth from the Goonies.

The king, being the sadistic prick he was, sticks the starving kid in a labyrith where he's fed live prisoners...until some heroic Greek comes along and guts him.

The story of my life.



Yeah? Give me a bottle of whiskey and stand back.

We should all remeber pagan Greek mythology is not to be trusted. At the most, it was just a figment of a story. It never existed, along with Pegasus, Hydra, Sirens, etc.

*glares*, har har laugh it up , I never talk about Sirens ever

That was an example.... I was listing a few of the pagan deities found in Greek Mythos..

right, sure , and not some attack at me

Fine, want me to list some different ones?