Minotaur

Word MINOTAUR
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Alongside these still frames there are a number of behind-the-scenes videos at the Rogue Pictures site where Tarsem discusses how the minotaur is a ‘beastly baby’ and the Gods ‘are like flying squirrels’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The minotaur is a mythological beast, which is half beast, half human. ❋ Unknown (2003)

"Surely the minotaur is their commander," Silvan said. ❋ Weis, Margaret (2000)

He had always, too, felt what he had called the minotaur-thing in her, the creature with teeth and claws fastening upon pleasure. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

Visit the island of Crete with the Amateur Traveler: This video shows the archeological site of Knossos (often called the Palace of Knossos) which was the home of the Minotaur if you believe early Greek authors (which you shouldn't because the minotaur was the name of the double headed ax used by the Minoans). ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Yes, I'll remember," the kender assured him, stepping back into the dim waiting room, happily holding his "minotaur" bone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"seafoam" cam Aphrodite, Zeus 'impregnation of women in the form of not just a swan but a goat and a "shower of gold", some blasphemous king being cursed so that his daughter fell in love with a bull and constructed a special wooden apparatus in order to have intercourse with the bull and thus birth the cursed beast called the minotaur who eventually got tossed into a labyrinth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The peasantry of the Gwâlior territory seem to consider their own government as a kind of minotaur, which they would be glad to see destroyed, no matter how or by whom; since it gives no lucrative or honourable employment to any of their members, so as to interest either their pride or their affections; nor throws back among them for purposes of local advantage any of the produce of their land and labour which it exacts. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

by the way, "minotaur" is not a compliment.... posted by Mungowitz @ 7/10/2006 07:50:00 AM ❋ Unknown (2006)

Kegasus, a centaur who resembled a cross between Mr. Ed and a roadie for a Blue Öyster Cult tribute band, touted bottomless beer cups and bikini contests and outraged some in the horse-racing community who would have preferred the services of Vinotaur, the tea-sandwich and wine-spritzer-serving minotaur. ❋ Jason Gay (2011)

I Was the Jukebox gives voice to the sand, the minotaur, the piano, eggplant, and a theater, among other objects, animals, and figures from history. ❋ Sean Carman (2012)

Percy is whisked away to Hogwarts Camp Half Blood, a camp for wizards demigods by his mom Sally (Catherine Keener) and Grover, but before they can all get away safely, Mama Jackson is seemingly killed by a minotaur. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The products of a soaring imagination -- full of ghosts, werewolves, and even a minotaur -- never lack for heart. ❋ Brian Gresko (2011)

Nag on the Lake: Me, I could do without the minotaur. ❋ The Nag (2009)

Flash game: Act like a minotaur in a china shop - Boing Boing ❋ Unknown (2009)

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