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ephhemeralite othellho

bunniope

not my labyrinth not my minotaur

#the minotaur

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mogielnik

i found love in the labirynth….

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ephhemeralite pasdetrois

pasdetrois

Theseus on the Killing of the Minotaur Out for an hour under the canopy of stars, Crete fallen from view like a swiftly melting dream, our ship unpursued, I began to feel greasy and stained as if I had cheated, as if I'd been unmanned. We'd barely been stalled in the antechamber and told to wait by the labyrinth door, when a girl appeared and delivered me a blade, a lamp, a ball of wool, ordered that I kill the Minotaur. She comes with us now, weeping. But the thing I killed was no beast. At the message I gave, it scrabbled to its knees and turned away, nodding its head, bleating a word that sounded like please. That creature, shielding its eyes from my lamp then grovelling, was no bull king. Something's left undone, some evil lies at the labyrinth's core like a worm. This grieving sister who walks off when we dock at Naxos, her slim back disappearing in the crowd, veiled and instantly anonymous - with all her talk of being a guardian, is only a woman. I feel like a doll strangely played in a script whose plot I do not understand. I don't change the sails from black to white to telegraph to my so-called father, the King, that we have returned, that the burden of the tribute is lifted. I cannot say for sure if the sacrifice is done, or we've simply given the slip to the Cretan king. When I sleep I see that brother twitching at my feet as he died; the way he first crept up like a dog, wagging and whimpering and longing and afraid, something lonely and abased, something that only wanted to be fondled, to lick my hand.

Fiona Benson

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honeyginsen

and i forgive you.

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hellenhighwater

Someone just reblogged this and I was reminded of a couple things I did deliberately while making this that I don't know if anyone actually noticed. (Which perhaps means they were unsuccessful, but whatever; the intent was there.)

The height of the crack in the wall is very low. The implication is intended to be that he started clawing at this wall when he was much, much smaller. At this size, if the figure stood, it would nearly touch the ceiling.
The marks are mostly in clusters of 4 parallel lines, implying that he was indeed clawing. His hands are hidden from view, so you don't know if they're damaged.
His position near the center of this curve means that viewers can almost never see his face, or all of his body at once. He's hiding.
The cluster of center columns means that most of your view of him when looking straight on is like seeing him through jail bars.
The absence of rubble from the wall makes it unclear if he has just stopped momentarily, or if he gave up on widening this hole a long time ago; the seated pose also makes it clear that at least for the moment, he has stopped even trying to escape.
The curved shape of the ceiling isn't appropriate to the architecture of the actual origin of this story, but I chose it in order to make the labyrinth feel more compressed and to put the inside in a deep enough shadow that the crack would always shine with bright light in comparison, blanking out the view from the minotaur's side unless you look very very closely.

#the minotaur

ephhemeralite zeawesomebirdie

cramenjoyer

no one is ever talking about how icarus and the minotaur lived in the same house. you don't think icarus was so foolishly carefree once he touched the sky because he knew bondage? he knew that worse than bondage, there was a boy down there who have never once laid eyes on the sun? you don't think the minotaur's last moments were spent wondering if there was some land beyond the infinite dark-- for no one had bothered to tell him except the whimpering, dying children he consumed? did he wonder whether it would have a sun? something more beautiful, he figured, than anything? when icarus reached for the sun and felt his wings melting, he kept going because he knew that other little boy would never get to see it, and if only he could shake a bit of heavenly light loose... but it wasn't meant to be. they were both doomed from the start.

moinsbienquekaworu

@aeriedwelling

ephhemeralite phantomoftheshoppera

mythologer

"Minotaur" - Clay sculpture by Erik Ebeling

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hellenhighwater

Theseus, and the ending of the story.

hellenhighwater

The plan is not for these three minotaurs to be together--each has their own section of labyrinth, increasing in scale as the story progresses. (The little single dome here will have stars on the ceiling for Baby Asterion.) But I thought it would be interesting to have them together for a moment, for once not the only one of themselves.

Theseus and the Minotaur will be on their way out of the last labyrinth, Theseus dragging him through outflung doors. I think, just barely visible inside the ceiling where he is being dragged out, there will be a couple more stars.