Since then, there has been no pain for me in solitude, because I know that my redeemer lives, and in the end he will rise and stand above the dust.

He is convinced that someone is going to come. And third, Asterion feels and he seems very sentimental. He ran at them joyfully and it is not clear if they fall from fear or he crush them accidentally. Second, he didn’t kill the humans on purpose. First, in the myth, there is no reference about Minotaur could think or speak.

However, there are substantial differences between the Greek Minotaur and Borges Minotaur. And every nine years, nine men come into his house. For example, the name of the narrator is Asterion, and that is how Minotaur was called in Crete. In Borges’s text, there are several references to this Greek myth. He received the help of Ariadne (Minos´s daughter) a succeeded, becoming a hero. When the third sacrifice approached, Theseus volunteered to slay the monster. Minos required that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, drawn by lots, be sent every seventh or ninth year to be devoured by the Minotaur. The king Minos won a war against Athens in revenge for the murder of his son Androgeus (other accounts says Athens was plagued by the gods for this murdering). He grew and became ferocious, so he was held in a labyrinth constructed by Daedalus. She mate with it, and as a result Minotaur was born. Poseidon punish the king by making Pasiphaë, Minos's wife, fall deeply in love with the beast. Intead of sacrificing the bull, Minos kept it because of its beauty. The ancient myth says that the king of Crete, Minos, requested Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support. The Minotaur is a mythical creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man. The monster dwelt at the center of the Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction. This description resembles the piece Relativity, a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. Sometimes I make a mistake and the two of us have a good laugh over it. The narrator imagines a visitor will come and he shows him the house:īowing majestically, I say to him: Now let us return to our previous intersection or Let us go this way, now, out into another courtyard or I knew that you would like this rain gutter or Now you will see a cistern that has filled with sand or Now you will see how the cellar forks. There is not one wellhead, one courtyard, one drinking trough, one manger there are fourteen mangers, drinking troughs, courtyards, wellheads. He also says:Įach part of the house occurs many times any particular place is another place. There is not a single piece of furniture. Then he describes his dwelling, a house like none other on the face of the earth. The narrator begins by refuting some accusations made against him: that he is arrogant, mad and a misanthropist. Examples of these ideas can be found in the text La casa de Asterión

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