When you were a young child did you ever take graph paper
and create your own maze on it??? Did you enjoy doing the mazes found in random
children’s magazines??? Have you ever spent a good amount of time getting lost
in a corn maze around the fall season of Halloween??? I know I am guilty of all
three of these things. I remember doing the mazes and having to erase the pencil
lines I drew because I ran into a wall and then had to retrace my path till I
found the correct route through…because somehow it mattered if I erased the
incorrect lines, but I know I wasn’t the only one guilty of this. So we are all
aware of mazes and in fact most video games are just a giant maze in which you
have to make it through without getting killed by whatever evil presence there
is. Again, we are very familiar with what a maze is and we have all had some
sort of a run in with them. Oh and apparently there is a dispute as to what the
difference between a maze and a labyrinth, but we will call it a maze because
my spell check hates when I try and spell labyrinth. 
Now picture being in a maze, a real life maze, made of stone
that stretched for as far as the eye could see, in fact you were put in this
maze to prove your innocence or courage. Ok no big deal, I mean what could be
so bad about it. Other than the maze being made of concrete and not corn and
being very long so you could possibly get hungry or thirsty during the event
what else and how bad could it be. Well how about if there was a monster in the
maze that was half man and have bull called a Minotaur and its only goal was to
kill you and eat you…yeah now sort of sounds something like its out of the
Running Man.
This myth of a labyrinth and Minotaur is from Greek and
Roman mythology. Mythology is full of fanciful tales to help explain the unexplainable
and to show the trials and tribulations of common man in regards to the Gods
above. This maze of death was commissioned by the King of Minos and it held his
Minotaur which ultimately within mythology was killed by a man named Theseus.
So there is your quick cliff note version of the labyrinth,
now what if I were to tell you that this may not be a myth after all??? What if
I were to tell you that this great large labyrinth was in fact a real and
genuine place??? There have been four ancient labyrinths discovered located in
Cretan, Egypt, Lemnian and Italy. The labyrinth in question that was said to
hold the minotaur was the Cretan labyrinth. Now we know for a fact that this labyrinth
existed, we know for a fact that King Minos had it constructed..so now what
about the Minotaur???
Well the story is that King Minos pissed off the God of the
Sea Neptune, yeah never do that, so Neptune then had the king’s wife sleep with
a savage bull which in turn she then bore the Miotaur…way to go beastiality. So
the labyrinth was created to house the half man half bull and thus is the
story. So is there any truth to a half man half bull creature running around a
psychotic concrete maze eating people and was the result of a pissed off God???
If you seriously asked yourself that question then slam your head into the
wall. Of course there is no such thing to have ever existed. Hell you might as
well say that there was a Bigfoot running around the maze…damn now
cryptozoologists are going to be claiming that now, Im sure I’ll be seeing that
on Searching for Bigfoot soon. You see the reason for the bull theory was that there
were a number of artifacts found with bulls paint on them and one of the famous
ones of a man jumping over a bull…try and pull that one off you rodeo clowns. Now
I enjoy watching pro bull riding and I couldn’t imagine a thinking pissed of
savage bull coming at me, try and ride that one for 8 seconds you cowboys.
This story as fanciful as it is, is just that…it is a story.
Would I love to see evidence of a half man half bull that ran around killing people
n some giant labyrinth…you’re damn right I would, but unfortunately it never
existed. It all stems to people creating stories t scare one another and I
would definitely consider this to be one of the original “campfire horror
stories” that people would tell.
Be safe and if you mess with the bull you’ll get the horns,
John Cannon
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