The Minotaur of legend was a mighty beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull. According to the ancient myths he was the product of an illicit union between Queen Pasiphae of Crete and a beautiful white bull with which she had fallen in love. Myths, of course, can invent all manner of odd tales, however bizarre and unlikely.
But what if the myth were based on a set of real facts - a young boy with hypertrichosis or "Wolfman's disease," whom nobody at court can accept? What if, in a fit of cruel rage, his real father, King Minos, builds a special prison to house him until his death - to keep him out of the glorious court at Knossos? Pasiphae's coupling with the bull becomes a legend, the only story Minos can accept, for to embrace the boy as his own son is unthinkable. There, in his lonely labyrinth, Asterion, for that is his actual name, meets a young girl, a victim put there by Minos for the Minotaur to "eat."
