Once King Minos ruled the island of Crete. One year, when he failed to deliver the promised bull to Poseidon, the sea god became angry and decided to take revenge. He possessed a bull and seduced Queen Pasiphae, wife of King Minos. Soon after, the queen gave birth to a cow-headed monster called the Minotaur.
To hide the monster from the public, King Minos ordered Daedalus, the island’s best craftsman, to build a labyrinth: a strange underground house with corridors so far away from the light that it was impossible to find a way out.
Androgios, the son of Minos, was murdered in a plot at Attica. Minos rose up to avenge his son, causing great suffering to the inhabitants, and the gods also brought drought and plague to the place, making it desolate. Then an oracle came from the temple of Apollo: If the Athenians could appease Minos’ anger and gain his understanding, then the disaster of Athens and the anger of the gods would be immediately lifted. The Athenians made peace with Minos and promised to send seven pairs of virgins to Crete every year as a tribute. When Minos picked up the boys and girls, he locked them in the maze to feed the Minotaur.
On the third tribute, Theseus, son of Poseidon, king of Athens, came to Crete with the boy and girl who had been drawn. This youthful beauty was so beloved by Ariadne, the king’s charming daughter, that she secretly expressed her love for Theseus and gave him a ball of thread, and taught him to tie one end of the ball at the entrance to the labyrinth. Then follow the rolling ball of thread until the ugly Minotaur takes up his abode. In addition, she gave Theseus a sword with which to slay the Minotaur, and Theseus killed the Minotaur with two treasures.
In reality, the real face of the labyrinth, which was excavated in 1900, is the palace of Knossos of the Cretan civilization.
The Palace of Knoros is the greatest creation of the Cretan civilization, located in the state of Heraklion, Crete, originally built around 1900 BC, here is not only the political and economic, religious and cultural center of the Minoan dynasty, but also the economic center, because there are numerous warehouses, workshops, offices for storing economic archives and organs for collecting taxes. The completed royal palace is a group of multi-storey buildings around the central courtyard, with an area of 22,000 square meters, the total number of rooms in the royal palace is more than 1500, the floors are closely connected, the stairway corridor twists and turns, the halls are scattered, the patios are numerous, the layout is not symmetrical, surprisingly clever, outsiders can not find it, so it is known as the “maze” in Greek mythology.
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