Minotaur

How is your Greek mythology? I am sure you won't be insulted if I refresh your memory. All you have to know is that the Minotaur was a monstrous creature with a bull's head and a human body. His mother was married to Minos, the kind of Crete, but she fell in love with a white bull - don't ask- and by means of disguising herself inside a hollow wooden cow especially made for the purpose she succeeded in seducing the brute. In due course ( how long to gestate a monster?) she gave birth to the Minotaur ( It's a little Minotaur). His stepfather, the king of Crete , was so horrified by the bull bastard his wife presented to him that he arranged for the freak to be imprisoned in an inescapable labyrinth. Here, in secrecy and darkness, the misshape grew into a living metaphor: a man with all the strength and savagery of a beast; a man with a bull's mind in his horny head. He became a monster and his appetites were suitably monstrous. Every nine years the city of Athens was required to send a tribute to King Minos, seven youths and seven maidens who were sacrificed to the Minotaur trapped in the black heart of his puzzle - prison. The myth is silent on what the monster actually did with these virgins, but once they had been thrust into his liar they were never seen again.

Fraser Harrison Minotaur in Love