cks you designed to be ~exotic~ or whatever, and those rabid jerks at Disney can only grit their teeth now!The scientific origins of the Minotaur - Matt Kaplan · 1:45pm Jul 21st, 2015
Bit brief (like all the TED-Ed talks) but really interesting. Mythology is often seen as one of the softest and least practically important sciences there are, so glad to see that part of anthropology getting its due for once. 
Oh, and for the record, this is the last time I will be tagging a general science post with SA since it tends to cause drama in the comments. I'll still be doing them whenever I find something neat and/or new, but I'll only use that story tag outright if its tech that outright shown or will be shown in Sufficiently Advanced. Cybernetics, metallurgy, and so on.
If any of you like these little asides but are 'only' getting them due to a favorite on SA, you will from now either need to hit that Follow button or manually search my blog for the tag 'Science' now and then.
No pressure, of course, just informing you guys about a change in 'policy,' for lack of a better word.
Not a perfect solution, I know, but hopefully this should keep more people happy then the previous system. 
Oooor you could just ignore and/or shut up anyone ridiculous enough they'd start "drama" over that like they deserve, because what the hell is even wrong with some people.
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Well, it is technically against the rules, vague as they might be. If not that bit I probably would ignore the dissent, but in this case they do have a point.
That's why I added that bit about science and tech directly effecting slash in SA. I'd rather keep every science post tagged, but since it is in the rules I'm folding.
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Considering some of the stuff that goes on here (and that I wasn't banned months ago already) I assume those are really more like very loose guidelines.
Like many very old myths that of the Minotaur has a number of unrelated and only slightly related bits that have been added on to a core narrative.
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Like nearly all of them, however, the moral of the story ultimately ends up being some variation on "the gods are total dicks and it sucks to be you."
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I actually quite like that with the old myths, how relocatable and human the gods and even monsters tends to be.
No impossible perfection. No all-knowing smugness. No the problem of evil stuff.
They are simply people with all that implies in both vices and virtues, if with enough power to be to you, what you are to an ant.
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It's a very uncomplicated way of dealing with religion, that's for sure. What do the gods want? What you want, of course, except instead of getting stinking drunk on barely half a barrel of mead like some slob drunk, they brew up a cauldron big enough to hold an ocean - and then they get stinking drunk. "Steal the super-sized brewing vat for divine kegger purposes" isn't even the greatest reason Thor ever beat up a giant, either.
It's one of the reasons I'm personally kind of fond of sun worship - you know what you're getting into, you know where it is, you know what it does for you, and you know why you'd want to keep it appeased and happy. And if someone asks you to prove your god exists, you can just point in roughly in a bright-wards direction. Crisis of faith solved.