Minos seven young men and seven virgin maidens to feed the Minotaur every year (which corresponded directly to the Minoans' meticulous records of lunar alignments - a full moon falls on the equinoxes once every eight years). This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos' lovestruck daughter. Minos was also part of the King Nisus story. Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of crimson hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his
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