The Cretan Bull in Greek mythology is the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, which led to the birth of the Minotaur. It was sent to Minos by Poseidon, to be sacrificed to him. However, Minos, seeing the bull, kept it for himself. Poseidon, with Aphrodite's help, inspired an unnatrual lust for the bull in Pasiphae. She secretly commissioned Daedalus to build a wooden cow to help her mate with the bull. She eventually gave birth and the Minotaur was the product of this affair. In other accounts, the Cretan Bull abducted Europa. The capture of the Cretan Bull was the seventh of the twelve labours of Heracles.
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| - The Cretan Bull in Greek mythology is the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, which led to the birth of the Minotaur. It was sent to Minos by Poseidon, to be sacrificed to him. However, Minos, seeing the bull, kept it for himself. Poseidon, with Aphrodite's help, inspired an unnatrual lust for the bull in Pasiphae. She secretly commissioned Daedalus to build a wooden cow to help her mate with the bull. She eventually gave birth and the Minotaur was the product of this affair. In other accounts, the Cretan Bull abducted Europa. The capture of the Cretan Bull was the seventh of the twelve labours of Heracles.
- Heracles was sent to capture the bull by Eurystheus as his seventh task. He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Heracles permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance, which Heracles denied because of pride., as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls. Heracles snuck up behind the bull and then used his hands to strangle it, and then shipped it back to Athens. Eurystheus, who hid in his pithos at first sight of the creature, wanted to sacrifice the bull to Hera, who hated Heracles. She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles. The bull was released and wandered into Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull. Theseus would later sacrifice the bull to Athena and/or Apollo. Eurystheus then sent Her
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| - Heracles was sent to capture the bull by Eurystheus as his seventh task. He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Heracles permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance, which Heracles denied because of pride., as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls. Heracles snuck up behind the bull and then used his hands to strangle it, and then shipped it back to Athens. Eurystheus, who hid in his pithos at first sight of the creature, wanted to sacrifice the bull to Hera, who hated Heracles. She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles. The bull was released and wandered into Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull. Theseus would later sacrifice the bull to Athena and/or Apollo. Eurystheus then sent Heracles to bring back the man-eating Mares of Diomedes.
- The Cretan Bull in Greek mythology is the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, which led to the birth of the Minotaur. It was sent to Minos by Poseidon, to be sacrificed to him. However, Minos, seeing the bull, kept it for himself. Poseidon, with Aphrodite's help, inspired an unnatrual lust for the bull in Pasiphae. She secretly commissioned Daedalus to build a wooden cow to help her mate with the bull. She eventually gave birth and the Minotaur was the product of this affair. In other accounts, the Cretan Bull abducted Europa. The capture of the Cretan Bull was the seventh of the twelve labours of Heracles.
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