Legend of the Minotaur - Mythical Beasts

Shocking discoveries on the Greek island of Crete could shed new light on the Minotaur - a ferocious half-man, half-bull monster.
The tale of the Minotaur is one of the most famous of all the Greek myths. This mutant half-man, half-bull monster was said to live inside a fiendish labyrinth on the island of Crete and devour its young victims. What is the real-world inspiration behind this fantastical story? Now evidence of human sacrifice and the skull of a huge extinct bull suggests that there may be more to this fable than we once thought. Could a clue to the rise of the Minotaur myth lie in the cataclysmic collapse of one of Europe’s oldest civilisations - the Minoans?
For thousands of years, civilisations believed in mythical beasts - Dragons, Cyclops, Giants, Vampires and Sea Monsters. They still fascinate us today, but where did the stories of these fabled creatures come from? How much truth lies behind the legends, and what can these myths tell us about the medieval and ancient people that created in them? This series combines action-packed location filming and computer-generated animation, with experts in archaeology and palaeontology, to unearth the secrets behind some of the most famous and terrifying mythical beasts.
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[@maxmantell5009]

Wasn’t Minos supposed to sacrifice the bull back to Poseidon and didn’t Poseidon curse pasiphae to fall in love with the bull as punishment for Minos refusing to sacrifice the bull?

[@MalcolmBrenner]

Yeah, that's the word on the street, anyway... who wants to know?

[@shawnsanborn2057]

@@MalcolmBrennerme!

[@jamesknott5255]

Yes. At least that’s the story as I know it.

[@vermouthstone9446]

”Ancient Greece“ never became a country, and it was the Romans who finally unified Greece. And the first country with a majority of Greeks was Eastern Rome, what an irony. Just like the predecessor of modern India was the Indian Empire established by the British.

[@nathanfleischman9856]

Well actually, that's not entirely true. Philip of Macedon united most of Greece in the 4th century BC. Sparta remained independent until the Romans came.

[@kaynefryday6637]

A country called Eastern Rome ? No

[@kaynefryday6637]

@@nathanfleischman9856exactly

[@coolrobert4335]

What if the Minotaur is a bull that's somehow evolved to walk up right, have hands, and be stronger than a normal bull

[@Kpopdrama0803]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIm2kGysmdqHjacsi=yuTJ4OGo4ftjQIsd Cyclops vs Minotaur Epic Clash

[@mottthehoople693]

not to mention become a carnivore....

[@franklulatowskijr.6974]

That’s not evolution. That would be a major genetic foul up. Evolution happens to entire species over a very long time.

[@InuranusBrokoff]

What if you had a watch that could make you fly?

[@mythicalcreaturesdoctorsor3589]

minotaur : 🇬🇷 Greece cave maze labyrinth bull head half human body tail eat human flesh

[@brettcurtis5710]

Watch British Ancients academic Bethany Hughes's Island of the Minotaur - a much better look at Minoan Civilisation ad it's eventual demise!

[@dragonfire810]

The Legend of the Centaurs

[@dawnacynthiadavis-valdez6702]

One fact to keep in mind is that what we now call Minoan is the civilization that was conquered by the Mycenaean. These are myths are told about a people we can’t understand because their language has not been deciphered. We have archaeological conjecture with a conquers story.

[@user-cv9xl3ys8e]

Excellent Researching Y'ALL

[@Content4free78]

maybe The Minotaur is an Auroch

[@leonardovillacis1756]

@Element.18 any chance you paste more of 'Mythical Beasts' videos please? Thank you

[@Element.18]

Thanks for the interest, more episodes coming soon!

[@leonardovillacis1756]

@@Element.18 thank you. ‚Mythical Beasts’ episodes I love. If you ever posts all of them (full length) I appriecieate it.

[@wanderingsoul3431]

Samson is real and stronger

[@ApazrTv]

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[@harrykuheim6107]

Storing Food under Buildings is as old as Buildings....

[@JRussellDay]

The minotaur takes a cigarette break

[@basantatamang7942]

i read class 7 english book this stoty thrn from imterest story

[@kaynefryday6637]

check out those eyes what the heck those pupils are definitely not normal

[@Content4free78]

the Labyrinth was destroyed after the Minotaur died,

[@lorimollette3970]

Nephlium creation

[@jaded9087]

Do you know how problematic your statement is. Cave's have to be made? No!! oh and brown people could not posably have the skills to build anything without the intervention of angles half breed giants or aliens. Think , yeah. Kind of racist. Magical thinking is part of dysfunctional thinking.

[@Cobra-gl7or]

The minotaur walk the earth before the great flood of Noah, that's why the story legend is so old..

[@pocholovenzonsuavillo]

Or maybe they just invented the myth for people not to go dungeons to witness the gruesome facts of the reality within them

[@RandyPark-pc7xh]

Just call them bull man !

[@davidfoye4359]

I'm a TAURUS AND I AGREE

[@nathanfleischman9856]

I think the mermaids deserve their own episode.

[@MalcolmBrenner]

This speaks deeply to the very ancient custom of practicing bestiality as a form of religious offering to a nature god, perhaps a cow if you were a man. And if you were a woman, you had to go through an elaborate charade to convince a bull, who isn't exactly as smart as a fox, that you are in fact, and smell like, a cow in heat. Perhaps ancient priestesses performed this copulation as a ritual offering to a bull-god, who must have represented the relatively new way of animal husbandry (no pun intended!) over the old hunting culture? Being a zoophile myself, I just think there's more to this story than meets the eye, if that's the appropriate phrase. And I must admit, the mechanics of Pasiphae's lust intrigue me... I'm sure some CAD software could tell me what I want to know, but I'm not going to learn it at my age!

[@myafghanangel7500]

Zoophile?

[@babystacks]

Get help.

[@Rubytuesday1569]

Animal cruelty.

[@jaded9087]

WTF.

[@waltermendez5274]

Baaaaaaarf

[@wanderingsoul3431]

Is this true?

[@user-jp4wb2ld6e]

...........yes

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Here's something I've never understood, why do these shows have to have 5 different people making comments on the subject? It's very annoying. One person says a few words, then another person says a few words etc etc. What are they trying to do? Give more academics work? It's just dumb and I can't watch it. I had rather watch a KZbin video by some unknown person ( there's lots of really great independent videos on KZbin) than watch anything produced by the BBC or any mainstream media channel, or especially the history channel, they really suck now. Well, that's my rant, I feel much better! Time to find something better to watch! Cheers mate!

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[@negaless1144]

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