once upon a time a long long time ago there lived a man named Daedalus and his young son
Icarus Daedalus was an inventor and a skilled craftsman he created wonderful mechanical
creations and built architectural marvels one day King Minos invited Daedalus to the island
of Crete the king asked him to build a huge maze for his beloved pet the Minotaur a Minotaur was a
monstrous creature who was half man and half bull Daedalus worked day and night along with his son
to build the labyrinth he made it so complicated that anyone who entered the maze would get lost
for eternity he was such a fine architect when the labyrinth was ready the king was amazed at
Daedalus skills and rewarded him Daedalus and Icarus decided to stay on the island for some
more days it was during this time that a group of children arrived at Crete they sailed away
the next day taking the king's daughter with them and they had killed the Minotaur to King Minos was
stricken with grief he believed Daedalus helped the children as there was no other way they get
out of the maze alive but Daedalus was innocent and he had no clue about what happened the king
punished Daedalus and Icarus by keeping them as prisoners on the island of Crete the father and
son were helpless how could they ever get out of this island without the ships one day Daedalus
noticed the birds flying in the air wings Daedalus thought he knew he needed wings to escape from the
island from that day they both began to gather all the bird feathers they could find Daedalus glued
them together with wax one by one after many days of hard work Daedalus finished making two
pairs of wings he then decided that it was time to escape from the island he called it grace and gave
him instructions you must never fly too close to the Sun as the wax may melt fly too close to the
ocean and your wings will become too heavy with water that sprays off the waves Icarus nodded
in agreement they flapped their wings and wonder of wonders they rose up in the air they flew up
in the air and when they looked back they could see the island of Crete far behind them Icarus
was excited and he flew higher and higher stop or the wax will melt Daedalus shouted when he saw a
Kuras flying close to the Sun but Icarus was too far away or too lost in his own happy thoughts of
excitement to listen to his father's warnings before soon the Sun began to melt the wax and
feathers started falling off help me shouted Icarus but before Daedalus could reach his son
Icarus started falling poor Icarus plunged into the water Daedalus landed as quickly as he could
on the beach near where Icarus had fallen but the only sign of his son was a few feathers floating
in the waves he named the island Icaria in memory of his son on the beach where he landed he built
a temple to the Sun god Apollo and inside it hung the wings he had created vowing never to fly again