In the history of the Greek culture, myths emerged to explain the unexplainable. Some of the myths that came about were about monsters, and one monster is the Minotaur. Son of Queen Pasiphae of Krete and an actual bull, the Minotaur came into this world. His mother Queen Pasiphae shut him in the Cnossian Labyrinth, with the only food source being the bodies of youths and maidens that the Athenians were obliged to send as tribute. Asterion, the birth name of the Minotaur, means “starry one” that is suggested is in association with the constellation: Taurus. Although the Minotaur is a monster, he was not immortal. A mortal by the name of Theseus killed him in the labyrinth, thus came the end of the Minotaur. Monsters have made their way to
