The legend of the Minotaur begins with the offense, the king Minos of Crete island. He instead offer sacrifice to the god Poseidon (the sacrifice of a bull intended) left the bull itself. Enraged, Poseidon conjured wife of Minos, and she committed adultery with a terrible bull ... From this context was born a terrible polubyk poluchelovek called Minotaur. Escaped from Greece (Athens), the architect Daedalus - built the famous labyrinth in which the Minotaur and settled. Athens, who were guilty before the Cretan king - in order to avoid the war, had to deliver each year 14 young men and women for the Minotaur power. Girls and boys from Athens carried away mourning ship with black sails. Once the Greek hero Theseus, son of Aegeus of Athens governor, asked his father about this ship and to learn the cause of the terrible black sails, set out to kill the Minotaur. Begged his father to let him go instead of one of the young men destined for skormleniya, he agreed with him that if he wins the monster, then sail on the ship will be white, and if not - then will remain black. In Crete, before you get to the dinner to the Minotaur, Theseus fascinated Minos's daughter Ariadne. Fall in love with the girl in front of the maze gave Theseus a ball of thread, which he unwound when moved deeper and deeper into the labyrinth. In the terrible battle hero he defeated the monster, and returned for Ariadne's thread to exit. On the way back he had gone already with Ariadne. But Ariadne was to be the wife of one of the gods, and Theseus is not included in their plans. Dionysius, namely his wife was to be Ariadne, Theseus demanded him to leave her. but Theseus was stubborn and did not listen. Angry gods didst send a curse on him, which made him forget about the promise of this father, he forgot to change the sails from black to white. Father saw Haller with black sails, threw himself into the sea, which is called the Aegean.