The Story Behind Minotauros Dice
Play dice with the Minotaur, and may luck be on your side! Welcome to the Cnossus Labyrinth…
The Legend of the Minotaur
Do you know the myth of the Minotaur? Perhaps you have heard this story before. But in reality, you know nothing at all! However, we will fix that right now and tell you how it really happened.
The Woman with the Big Head or Why All Evil Comes from Women
Poseidon favored the Cretan king Minos. The god of the seas sent him a magnificent bull, unlike any in the world: huge, beautiful, with magnificent horns… The ruler of Crete waved it off and did not sacrifice it. The beast was just too good! Minos sacrificed an ordinary bull instead.
Poseidon was furious at such insolence! The lord of the seas cursed the gifted bull with madness, and it began to destroy everything around. And as if the problem with the raging beast was not enough, Queen Pasiphae – Minos’s wife – confessed that she had lain with the sacrificial animal. The fruit of this love threatened to be born in about nine months.
Inventions and Perversions
Minos was, to say the least, in slight shock. The king was most interested in how exactly the adultery happened, since his wife was a fragile, petite woman, and the bull was a huge creature!
It turned out Daedalus was involved – the very master who made the wings. The brilliant inventor created a wooden cow into which Pasiphae climbed to attract the bull, who was completely unwilling to interbreed across species.
A Child Who Looks Like His Father
The queen gave birth to a boy with a bull’s head. If she had not been the daughter of Helios himself – the great sun god – Minos would surely have thrown his wife into a pit with lions. Of course, the boy had to be hidden in the Cnossus Labyrinth, built by Daedalus – the ruler of Crete ordered the master to whitewash his name in this way because he considered him indirectly responsible for the birth of the horned monster.
When the Minotaur grew a little, he craved bloody sacrifices and entertainment. Every nine years, seven girls and boys were sent to the monster. Also, unwanted people were given to him, such as hardened criminals or simply those who dared to arrange some kind of opposition at Minos’s palace.
Mountains of Gold in the Lair of Evil
Mountains of gold and precious stones were stored in the Cnossus Labyrinth, which all islanders dreamed of reaching. However, few of Crete’s inhabitants found enough courage to poke their noses into the Minotaur’s lair.
King Minos considered the labyrinth quite a reliable place to store valuables and was a thousand times right. Only the most desperate tried to get inside voluntarily. Rumors circulated on the island that the Minotaur gives everyone a chance: you must play dice with the monster – the winner can take as much treasure as they can carry and get away safely.
Play with the Minotaur!
They say the lucky ones who managed to get rich never admit where their fortune came from. It is understandable – what kind of madman would brag about treasures stolen from the Cnossus Labyrinth! Although gold lies in the monster’s lair, it still belongs to King Minos, which means taking it is tantamount to signing one’s own death sentence.
Theseus has not yet killed the Minotaur. You still have time! Maybe it’s time to gather your courage and enter the monster’s lair? Beat the horned monster at dice, and then you will be as rich as the king! Or wait for Theseus, who will soon come with the rest of the sacrifices and deal with the mistake of nature…
