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 * **Minos (soon to be king) asked Poseidon for a sign that he would make a good king**


 * **Poseidon sent him a bull, from the sea, expecting the bull to be sent back as a sacrifice**


 * **When Minos did not return the bull s a sacrifice, Poseidon got angry**


 * **Minos used the bull to become the most powerful man in Creed**


 * **He also used the bull to try to defeat the Greeks**


 * **Poseidon got mad and made the bull wild and crazy**


 * **He also made Minos wife (Pasafea) have sexual desire for the bull**


 * **Pasafea and the bull created a son who had the head of a bull, the body of man, and the temper of a demon**


 * **Everyone named it "Minotaur"**


 * **Because of the temper of the minotaur, they locked him away in a labyrinth**


 * **Theseus was sent to kill the Minotaur**

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 * **Because it was almost impossible to find your way out of the maze, he was given a ball of yarn to use to get out**


 * **Theseus'** **father had told him to sail white flags if he killed the minotaur and black flags if he died**


 * **Theseus was so happy that he had killed the Minotaur, that he forgot to switch the colors of he sails from black to white**


 * **His father saw the black sails, and killed himself because he was so upset that his son was dead**


 * **This myth represents hubris punishment because Minos did not obey Posideon and therefore a horrible demon like monster was born to his wife.**