Minotaur Mirror

“Well, what do you think?” Asked Roderick Brown to his wife, Elaine, his face still staring at his own reflection on the body-length Minotaur mirror he had purchased in her absence.

“It’s…eerie.  Where on earth did you get it? From a museum I should imagine.”

Roderick pulled out handkerchief one of his pockets and wiped across the glass and stood back with a satisfied grin across his face. It appeared that he had actually bought it for himself.

“Well, you’re not far off, my dear. This mirror has a very long history behind it. I know you’re not very interested but apparently, legend has it that Theseus killed the Minotaur after discovering him in the final area of the Labyrinth; and thankfully with Ariadne’s help, he managed to find his way out, then fled from Crete, and came to Naxos with her.”

“Duh! So what link has that got with the mirror?” “Even a school boy or girl knows that much.” Replied Elaine, folding her hands and tutting.

“Listen, I haven’t finished yet.” This is where it gets interesting. You see,the person who sold me this mirror told me that in that there’s another version to the Legend.” He paused.

“Why do you keep pausing!? Cried Elaine. Tell me, I’m all ears!” Roderick grinned then continued.

“The other version goes, and please bear in mind that this version had been concealed in a scroll hidden inside this mirror, that the Minotaur heard Theseus’s approaching footsteps and quickly stepped into this mirror and has been abiding inside it ever since.”

“That’s silly.

“I know and I must admit that even I felt I was being taken for a ride. Look, sit down and let me explain what I know. The Minotaur was half man and half bull. Call it a consequence of king Minos’s refusal to sacrifice a certain bull to the god Poseidon. Okay, so what happened next? Well, the god punished him by making Pasiphe, Minos’s wife, fall in love with the bull, and lo and behold, she bore it a son, namely, the Minotaur. It was in fact a hideous beast, that was kept hidden away inside the labyrinth and every year, Minos ordered seven young girls and seven young boys, all from Athens, to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.