Poseidon promised King Minos to offer him a bull on condition he would sacrifice the bull back to the god. Indeed a bull of unmatched beauty came out of the sea. King Minos seeing it, did not want any more to sacrifice it. He instead sacrificed another bull, hoping that Poseidon would not notice. Poseidon was very angry when he realised 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.
The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus who was sent as part of the tithe to Crete but managed to overcome the Minotaur and escape the labyrinth with the help of Minos's daughter, Ariadne?.
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