one day King Minos the ruler of Crete pray to the sea god Poseidon for a special bull
to sacrifice to Zeus the highest Olympian god Poseidon granted his wish and a magnificent bull
emerged from the ocean King Minos was dazzled by the beauty of this amazing creature King
Minos decided not to sacrifice this bull and sacrificed another one instead when Poseidon
came to know about this he punished Minos for his disobedience by making pacify the King's
wife fall in love with this animal as a result passivate gave birth to the Minotaur a monster
with the head of a bull and the body of a man Poseidon was still mad at the king so he turned
the bull mad so mad that fire was coming out of its nostrils to the Minoans bulls were sacred
it was against their religion to kill a bull they tried to recapture it without harming
it but they did not succeed the bull hid during the day at night it ripped destruction from one
end of the island to the other to capture this animal master it and bring it before
Eurystheus was the seventh labour of Hercules task seven the Cretan boy Hercules arrived in
Crete as instructed by Eurystheus the Beast was hiding in a forest at the far end of the island
when the bull saw Hercules it was scared he did not fight Hercules and bowed its head down Hercules
quickly grabbed its horn and climbed on top so thoroughly did Hercules master the animal that
he drove it back to King Eurystheus Eurystheus saw that Hercules had succeeded in bringing back the
Cretan bull he planned to sacrifice the Beast to his benefactor the Greek goddess Hera Hera hated
Hercules she did not wish to receive a sacrifice because of the work of her husband's illegitimate
son and refused the offering Eurystheus had no other option than to set the bull free when it
was no longer under the management of Hercules the bull became wild again and wandered in the
city destroy everything in its sight it wandered around Greece terrorizing the people and ended up
in Marathon a city near Athens at marathon the bull stopped its wandering and instead caused
damage to property and people just as it had done in Crete and later acquired the name marathon e'en
bull later Theseus son of the king of Athens Egeus set forth to capture the bull he went to
marathon and indeed successfully caught it he then returned to Athens where he sacrificed it
to Athena or Apollo Celsius would of course later traveled to Crete where he killed the offspring of
the Cretan bull the Minotaur killing it inside the labyrinth near the Palace of King Minos