00:00Did you know that in Greek mythology, the Minotaur exists because a king was too greedy to kill a cow?
00:06Poseidon sent King Minos a perfect white bull as a gift. A divine animal. Flawless. The deal was
00:12simple. Sacrifice it back to the gods. Minos looked at it and thought, I'm keeping this one.
00:18He swapped it for an ordinary bull, figuring Poseidon wouldn't notice. Poseidon noticed.
00:23And here's where it gets dark. He didn't flood Crete. He didn't strike Minos down.
00:27He did something far worse. He made Minos' own wife, Pasiphae, fall completely and uncontrollably
00:35in love with the bull. What came from that obsession was the Minotaur. Half-man, half-bull. A monster
00:41born inside the royal family, hidden in a labyrinth beneath the palace. And to feed it, Minos demanded
00:47Athens send 14 young people every nine years as tribute. The tribute of children. The labyrinth.
00:54The hero Theseus. All of it traces back to one king who couldn't let go of a cow.
00:59Poseidon didn't want blood. He wanted Minos to live with it.
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