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Minotaur

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The Minotaur is a monstrous creature that appears in heroic tales of the classical era. The protagonist is meant to destroy it. It is a legendary creature described in folklore and myths.

↻ synthesized from 11 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2022
Historical notes
Appears in heroic tales of the classical era.

Relationships

co occurs with
unicorn, Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Scylla, Charybdis, Medusa, Hydra, harpies, chimaera, Triton, Piasa Bird, basilisk, Anubis, Cynocephalus, Bastet, Daksha, Ganesha, Hayagriva, Horse-Face, Keibu Keioiba, Khnum, Maahes, Pakhet, Sekhmet, Tefnut, Nandi, Narasimha, Ox-Head, Penghou, Pratyangira, Set, Tikbalang, Tumburu, Varaha, Zhu Bajie, griffins, Pegasus, sphinxes, manticore, Anzû, Harpy, Simurgh, Thunderbird, Pamola, Yali, Kamadhenu, Chimera, Lamashtu, Enlil, Sharabha, Apis, Buraq, Lakhmu, Pasiphaë, Perse, Crete, Europa, Asterius, Oenopion, Staphylus, Thoas, Peparethus, Eurymedon, Phliasus, Ceramus, Maron, Euanthes, Latramys, Tauropolis, Circe, Calypso, Perses, Asterope, Aeëtes, Medea, Hera, Horus, Hathor, Minos, Ariadne, Theseus, Phaedra, Daedalus, Bacchus, Ariane, Watchman, Aegeus, Arianna, Archeus, Tauride, Icarus, Cretan snake‑goddess, dragon, Cyclops, Holy Spirit, centaur, cherubim, Ziz, mermaids, jinn, Zeus, Helios, Dionysus, Hecate, Bat, Artemis (Diana), Old Man, Aphrodite
sibling of
Glaucus, Ariadne, Deucalion, Acacallis, Androgeus, Phaedra, Xenodice, Catreus
enemy of
Bouroun, Thésée, Theseus, Euthycles
manifests as
double of Thésée, King Minos in a bull‑mask
child of
Cretan Bull, Pasiphaë
manifested by
Asterion

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Mentioned by

and 3 more

Sources

wikipedia (11)
  1. Legendary creature
  2. List of hybrid creatures in folklore
  3. Lamassu
  4. Ariadne
  5. Circe
  6. Hera
  7. Ariadne (poem)
  8. Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
  9. Ariane (Martinů)
  10. Arianna in Creta
  11. Icarus (2022 film)

Source passages

“the (human/bull) Minotaur to be destroyed by Theseus”

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“Minotaur – A creature that has the body of a human with the head, tail, and occasional hindquarters of a bull.”

#4718 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Minotaur, Greek mythology: bull-man hybrid”

#11120 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“were required to sacrifice 7 young men and 7 maidens to the Minotaur every 1, 7 or 9 years...Theseus, who volunteered in order to kill the Minotaur...he could retrace his way out of the labyrinth of the Minotaur”

#27713 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.”

#27925 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5