Oh you might look like 'just a guy', but your preternatural skill with mazes and singing voice that leads people to risk their lives to hear better would be a dead giveaway that you were not so ordinary.

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

The Minotaur was more about being effective at killing people in a maze. If he was good at mazes, he probably would have left.

lukstru@feddit.de · 35 pts · 2y (2 replies)

UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

Nuke that damn thing from orbit.

owen@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

This is so epic

Strobelt@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I would say the image OP meant a centaur and not a minotaur. But then the other way around would be a hippocampus!

TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 32 pts · 2y (2 replies)

No they're saying the human half of a minotaur (from the waist down) and the human half of a merfolk (from the waist up).

Centaurs don't have horse heads, so they can't make a water horse.

Strobelt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The issue is that the bottom half of a minotaur is just the hind quarters of a bull. But you are right that centaurs miss the horse head too

TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 2y

The Minotaur just had a bull's head, and sometimes a tail. Everything else was human. We usually imagine the shoulders as broad and bull-like too but the Greeks just went with bull's head (and sometimes tail, but just the tail, like when anime furries make cat girls. Yes I said it)

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/theseus-minotaur.jpg

https://avradio.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/wpcontent/uploads/import/2018_04_18_performance_the_minotaur_and_the_labyrinth_satyamayi_english_2.jpg

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 2y (4 replies)

You'd be a guy who's hung like a bull and has fabulous hair, I guess that would be all right.

meliaesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

This Jason Momoa theory is seeming more plausible...

Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

And if you are a girl?

Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

😏

Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

Replace 'guy' with 'girl' in that sentence and everything still checks out.

Mun_Walker@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y (2 replies)

And your offspring are just fish and horses

Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Fish and bulls*.

The horse one is Centaur, and that has the same human half as mermaids. Maybe it would be able to make a being with the torso of a man, front legs of a horse and a mermaid tail sticking out the back.

EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

A Meritaur!

littlebluespark@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y

Pretty sure that's Jason Momoa's IRL backstory, though. ☝🏼

SomeGuy69@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Alternativ you'd be a seahorse

No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I prefer mermotaur.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

Sounds like a heart condition.

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

And your sibling got the other halves and you spent hours a day explaining to strangers that you are related

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

And being the fully human one you'd probably be considered the weirdo. You'd look angrily at your sibling and think "what a load of bullfish!"

SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y (5 replies)

The only human part of a minotaur is the arms/torso, right? He still will have hooves and a tail.

EDIT: Wikipedia:

with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I... don't mind that. Nyaaah uwu

TehBamski@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

~~Like many people in this thread, you're thinking of a centaur.~~

Edit: I stand corrected. It seems a Minotaur is not a simple top-half/bottom-half split. It's more like the body and arms of a human, with the head, tail, and feet of a bull.

SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y

No, I do not. Did you google-image centaur and minotaur? Because the results are clear there. What is it you think coming out of his ass?

Wikipedia says:

a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man

Or use google-images. Judged by these pictures 95% even have hooves.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (8 replies)

How did a horse fuck a fish, exactly?

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Minotaur is the cow on top one

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Doh haha I knew that, dunno why I was thinking of centaurs at that moment. Question still stands though

janAkali@lemmy.one · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Biology fact - fish can reproduce externally. Female lays the unfertilised eggs and male fish squeezes milt (spermes) on top.

Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Relevant https://youtu.be/dOLaTBMxmbk?si=BzE3OIOWkrGiKw3t

TehBamski@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

...

bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I mean a fish is just a lubed up fleshlight

So life UHH... finds a way

Strobelt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

How to say you're a dolphin without saying you're a dolphin

OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I mean that's not the difficult part.

whostosay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

WHO THE FUCK GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MY LIFE?

zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)

OP has never seen a seahorse before

javasux@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Right. The image is about a minotaur, though, and the OP said the "other way around" is just a seahorse. The other way around would basically be a fish with a bull's head and human arms. Not very seahorse-like.

androidul@lemmy.ml · -6 pts · 2y

what if one day you wanna be trans, what would you wanna turn into?