full mythology tale on the minotaur???
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It all starts with King Minos. He did something that offended the gods (I can't rember what) and as punishment, his wife, Pacifae, fell in love with a beautiful bull. In order to seduce the bull, she had her craftsman, Daedalus, craft a bull outfit for her, and she then boinked the bull. The offspring of the beastly (pardon the pun) act was the minotaur, who was then kept in the catacombs, which were also crafted by Daedalus. The minotaur required sacrifices to be made to him, but King Minos' daughter fell in love with one of the 'sacrifices', named Theseus. She convinced Daedalus to tell her the secrets of the catacombs, in order to allow Theseus to escape. The secret was to tie some string to a rock and follow it. He killed the minotaur and escaped. For this deed, Daedalus and his son, Icarus, were confined to a tower prison, and from here stems the tale of the wax wings, and Icarus' death.
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Try these:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology\n\nhttp://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/\n\nhttp://www.greekmythology.com/\n\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\n\nhttp://webhome.idirect.com/~donlong/
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Most everything in the OLD texts were spoken stories passed from one generation to another. The original text ... I couldn't tell you. The original basis for all of these texts .....ancient fables told to the young (and old) to instruct them on how to live their lives.\n\nGood luck!! - Egypt is always a good place to start looking.
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This is good:\nhttp://www.mythweb.com/\nThis too:\nhttp://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek/articles.html\nAnd this focuses on women in Greek myths:\nwww.paleothea.com
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Why is this question in the mythology section?\n\nI recomend a search engine.
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You should read Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth" and draw your own conclusion.\nFor example, there is a story in the Hindu religion about a baby who is put into the water to save him from harm and who is rescued by a princess.The same story is told of Moses in the Bible. You will learn that  there are many similar stories that appear in many different cultures.\n\nIf you'd rather you can buy the "Power of Myth" on video or borrow it from the library.
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yes i have heard the story and i'm british. but all these tales are myths that appear in all ages of man. currently this tales is repeated in mexico, south texas and arizona the aztecs had versions of it and hernandes cortes had heard of it. in spain there are versions of it and malaysia has similar tales.
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Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_mythology\nhttp://www.npl.lib.va.us/bibl/Spain/Spain_bibs.html
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I'm pretty sure the River he's talking about is actually the Mythical river the dead cross by ferry. The River Styx.  I myself have never read the book nor actually want to only because of experiencing personal bad vibes from a book a friend had.\n About the best I can come up with at the moment is some sites I found on the history of the Necronomicon and other info on the book. As well as info on the River Styx. Wish I could have offered more, though I'll keep looking. Maybe I'll luck out from one of my friends who has read the book and studied it intensely. Oh some of the sites are talking about the first two books of the Necronomicon, the one written by Crowley and the one written by the Mad Arab also known as Abdul Alhazred. I honestly don't know which one came first between Alhazred's and Crowley but if I remember right I think Alhazred's was the first written rendition of the Neconomicon. Anyway I supplied those links as well. Maybe one will help.
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In the beginning there was only the Goddess Gaia (earth) and the Sky God (uranus).  From the union of the two (where earth meets sky) came many babies (the titans and many different beasts and monsters including the hundred-handed giants and the cyclops).  Uranus did not want to see these children and forced them all to live underground so he would never have to see them (not exactly an ideal father).  \n\nThe Goddess was very sad at the way he treated her children and asked them to rebel.  The youngest of the 12 titans agreed and the next time Uranus tried to lay down with his mother he rose up and attacked Cronus (I won't go into the details since they would probably be asterisked out) and drove him away permanently.  Thus began the rule of the Titans with Cronos as thier leader.\n\nEach of the Titans was named after a fundamental force in the world: forethought, oceans, memory... Things went on for awhile until Cronos began to fear his own child would someday rise up to overthrow him.  Every time a child was born he would swipe it up and swallow it whole so it would never be able to challenge his rule.\n\nZeuss's mother was also saddened by this, and substituted a rock for baby zeuss which was swallowed whole.  After Cronos left Zeuss was given to the neriads (rivers) to raise.  He eventually grew up and was discovered by his father who agreed to take him in as a lowly servent to prove his loyalty, Zeuss (being clever) poisoned Cronos's drink and made him ill, whereupon he regurgitated all of the Olympian Gods he had swallowed (they were divine and were still very much alive).  Thus began the war of the Titans whereupon the Olympians enlisted the help of the cyclopses and the hundred-handed ones and others to overthrow the Titans.\n\nThere are many ways to view the story, as a parable, creation story or an oversimplification of life deveoping on earth.  If you want more specifics try the link below or the original creation stories.
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Wrong section to post this question.\n\nTry re-posting in Mythology and Folklore.\n\nPeace.
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According to Mr Robert Graves in his book 'The Greek Myths - Complete Edition', out of all the translations of ancient text he has done there are several stories. \n\nAlthough his research is covered by only four pages, in his book it is most probably best if you read these pages yourself. It would be quite hard to paraphrase. If you are interested the book is easy to obtain in Softcover or Hardcover, and the section in the book is 56.\n\nI hope this will help you.\n\nSorry Infinity606, but Juno is Roman and Io is Greek, different myths. I checked out your link to bartleby.com, and they have mixed greek and roman as if they one and the same. That would be like mixing North and South America and sayiny that they are the same.
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Greek mytholigy\nthe story was pased down but Homer was the 1st person to put it in writting so he was given credit
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http://www.mythweb.com/
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The story of Pyramus and Thisbe from Greek Mythology:\nhttp://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pyramusthisbe.htm\n\nThe story is made fun of as the play within the Shakespeare play "Midsummer Night's Dream"
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Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. These accounts were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; our surviving sources of Greek mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition. Greek mythology was also reflected in artifacts, some of them works of art, notably the repertory of vase-painters. The Greeks themselves referred to the myths and associated artworks to throw light on cult practices and ritual traditions that were already ancient and, at times, poorly understood.\n\nThe span of stories and characters in Greek mythology ranges from the atrocities of the early gods to the brutal wars of Troy and Thebes, from the youthful pranks of Hermes to the heartfelt grief of Demeter for Persephone, all depicted in minute detail in a bewildering range of media. The cast of characters includes many gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, monsters, daemons, nymphs, satyrs, and centaurs.
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Well common sense, to me it sort of goes like this....\nALL mythology has some sort of real-world counterpart.  What this means is that essentially that all myths contain some sort of universal truth when you strip away the dross.  As far as mythological creatures are concerned, I do believe that some may have definantly existed.  To say things such as ancient mariners thought that manatees were mermaids is a bit presumptuous.  That's making a giant assumption, saying that we know what and how ancient mariners thought, which we obviously cannot know for a fact.  So called mythological creatures are being discovered all the time.  A few years back, a breed of deer was discovered in Asia that was thought to have been a mythological creature.  It was tiny and breathed through the sides of its snout instead of having a nose.  For centuries, science scoffed at its existence, until one day someone caught one...And science looked stupid, as it does so often by down-playing things that don't fit its paradigm.\nThe unicorn was a creature featured in the original painting of the creatures going into Noah's Ark, two by two...I believe that they were probably abundant somewhere in the wrld at one time, but got wiped out as so many species do.\nIN fact, we discover new species of creatures every single day...Fish we thought were extinct, thus becoming the realm of myth....Giant squid, Giant sharks (Aussie Coast), and a plethora of critters that by our own technical and scientific standards shouldn't even exist (all those little critters living along the Mariennes Trench in water that's well over the temperature  that's supposed to support life)....\nIn closing, my answer to you is a YES.  I do believe at one point the so called "mythological" creatures not only existed, but were common as well.  Hit some of the crypto zoology websites and you'll see what I mean about everything I've written....Sites that deal with forbidden history are also a great source of information.\nPEACE!