King Minos of Crete prayed to the sea god Poseidon, asking him for a sign to confirm his divine right to rule. Poseidon sent him a magnificent white bull, expecting Minos to sacrifice it in his honor. However, struck by the bull’s beauty, Minos chose to keep it and sacrificed a different bull instead. An angry Poseidon cursed his wife, Queen Pasiphae to fall in love with the bull, which led to Minotaur’s birth, a fearsome creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull.