Minos the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos' wife Pasiphaë with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build. The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos' daughter Ariadne. One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared. The Curetes told the Cretans "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child." Polyidus of Argos observed the similarity of a newborn calf
The Hero with a Thousand Faces from the introduction to "The Hero with a Thousand Faces", Campbell summarizes the monomyth: In laying out the monomyth, Campbell describes a number of stages or steps along this journey. "The hero's journey" begins in the "ordinary world". He must depart from the "ordinary world", when he receives a "call to adventure". With the help of a "mentor", the hero will cross a "guarded threshold", leading him to a supernatural world, where familiar laws and order do not apply. There, the hero will embark on a "road of trial"s, where he is tested along the way. The archetypal hero is