I noticed that the Cretan Bull was created by Poseidon, the circumstances of the Minotaur's birth was orchestrated by Poseidon, and then Theseus is also characterized as a demigod son of Poseidon. This isn't really a full thought, but I thought it was interesting how involved Poseidon is to each of the parts of the labyrinth myths. He created the Minotaur, and he'd create his killer too. Also I don't think Poseidon is brought up in the Icarus myth, but he did meet his end drowning in the sea.
aye right? from a doylist perspective it’s cause crete is an island nation so the sea is pretty important to them and Poseidon as a result was a commonly invoked god. to clarify, Poseidon sent Minos the bull as a sign of his favor with the expectation Minos would sacrifice the bull to Poseidon (think abt buying yarn for someone with the express purpose for them to make u a sweater). Minos really liked the bull tho so he didn’t sacrifice it like he promised (he might have killed another bull as a fake out iirc, but ofc Poseidon was like bruh i can tell).
greek myths are big on uhhh dramatic irony? hubris? what’s the technical term for “the punishment fits the crime”. like tantalus fed the gods his son, so his punishment is No More Food, Forever. Poseidon’s also known to be temperamental (like the sea, get it?) and HATED being slighted (when he lost the city of Athens to Athena he fucked their shit up big time) and i mean, most of the gods had tempers on them (Hestia excluded) but Poseidon could get Nasty. and since Minos was Zeus’… thinks for a minute grandchild? (his dad Asterion was sired by Zeus, wait for it, in bull form) it makes sense that Poseidon would be the one cursing him rather than his Pappy (not that zeus wouldn’t fuck up his descendants lmao i just mention it bc of the lineage thing and that Zeus was the Bull Guy in general).
but yeah the whole “gods solving the problems they create” thing is pretty common. Athena made Medusa and also gave Perseus the shit he needed to kill her. people joke about gods like Loki having to damage control their own shit but tbh that’s Most Of The Gods. immortals cause problems, man.