![]() ![]() The creature whose bellows would make the floors of our palace rumble and shake as the time grew near for his annual feeding despite his burial far below the ground in the centre of a twilight labyrinth so dizzying that no one who entered could ever find their way back to daylight again.Ī labyrinth to which only I held the key.Ī labyrinth which housed what was at once Minos’ greatest humiliation and greatest asset. It was a tribute – seven Athenian youths and seven Athenian maidens brought every year across the waves to Crete to sate the appetite of the monstrosity that had threatened to shatter my family with shame but instead had elevated us to the status of legends. It wasn’t wealth or power that Minos sought from Athens, however. ![]() It begins with her explaining the result of the feud her father, Minos, has with Athens after his son was killed there. I was thus delighted to discover that Ariadne’s story goes beyond the labyrinth. Also, if I’d known that the Titian painting to your left was called Bacchus and Ariadne, (as used on the cover of 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet by the Crash Test Dummies), it would also have been clearer. ![]()
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