You’re almost right, OP. However, I regret to inform you all that the original story of the Minotaur is profusely more messed up than that. Because I have to live with this knowledge, so will you.
Minos, while competing for the throne, prayed for Poseidon to send him a snow white bull as a sign of support. Y’know, as one does.
Poseidon was chill about it, and sent along the aforementioned bull, under the condition that Minos sacrifice it to him afterwards. HOWEVER, Minos decided to be a little shit, and kept the bull instead, too enamored with its beauty to kill it.
Alright, buckle up, because this is where the fucked up shit starts to happen. It’s really not for the faint of heart.
As punishment for going back on his word, Poseidon caused Minos’s wife, Pasiphae, to fall madly in love with it. Yes, the bull. Imagine being this poor woman, suddenly overcome with rapturous lust for a piece of swole-looking livestock.
You already see where this is going, but it’s even worse than you’re picturing.
Pasiphae commissioned Daedalus – the famed inventor and father of Icarus – to make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside of it to get some of that prized bovine cock. You really have to admire her ingenuity.
Nine months later, out pops the Minotaur.
So, again, OP was half right. The Minotaur is named after Minos – literally translating to Minos’s bull – but not because Minos is his father. Minos is his nerdy stepfather who got cucked by a bull.
Enjoy living with this knowledge, like I’ve had to ever since reading that myth at the age of twelve.
Maybe as penance, I’ll draw the Kyletaur.
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