WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Minos believed that the god would accept a substitute sacrifice. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Minos’ wife Pasiphaë fall in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the craftsman Daedalus fashion a hollow wooden cow, which she climbed into to mate with the bull. The monstrous Minotaur was the result.

Detailed explanation-2: -Minotaur, Greek Minotauros (“Minos’s Bull”), in Greek mythology, a fabulous monster of Crete that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. It was the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a snow-white bull sent to Minos by the god Poseidon for sacrifice.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bucentaurs are centaurs that are half-human, half bull/cow. They have cow-like ears, a slightly cow-like muzzle, cow-like coloration, and, for the adult males, horns growing from their heads.