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The Minotaur

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Finally got something done! I haven’t posted anything in over a month. Was working on something else when ~1incubus commented on my old minotaur pic and I finally set to work on the revamp of it. Was long overdue. Fixed his anatomy, put in the colors he was meant to be, overhauled his weapon. :P

Old version (from when I first joined dev! Wow.. ) : [link]

Reread the myth before I started the v2 and summarized. Goes somethin like this..

Poseidon gave “a wonderfully beautiful bull” to Mino’s so that he could sacrifice it to him (go figure how that works). But Mino’s didn’t kill it and kept it. As punishment, Poseidon made Pasiphae (Mino’s wife) fall madly in love with it. Resulting in the minotaur which Mino’s then had locked away in a specially built labyrinth.

Every nine years the people of Athens sent a ‘tribute’ of “7 maidens and 7 youths” who were to be released in the labyrinth. Theseus ended up killing him. But…honestly it wasn’t much of a fight for some reason. I find that odd…
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