Minotaur Myth

The Minotaur In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a creaturee that was part man and part bull. It dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the artist Daedalus and his son Icarus who were ordered to build it to hold the Minotaur.
The historic site of Knossos is usually identified as the site of the labyrinth. The Minotaur was killed by Theseus.
Some modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar personification and a Minoan adaptation of the Baal -Moloch of the Phoenicians. The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan Crete.