Icarus the wax in his wings melted he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the sea where he drowned, sparking the idiom ""don't fly too close to the sun"". This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon. Icarus' father Daedalus, a very talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a clew
Prisoners of the Sun excavated Rascar Capac's tomb, contained a "mystic liquid" obtained from coca that plunged them into a deep sleep. Each time the Inca high priest cast his spell over seven wax figures of the explorers, he could use them as he willed as punishment for their sacrilege. Tintin convinces the Inca prince that the explorers wished only to make known to the world the splendours of their civilisation. The Inca prince orders Huascar to destroy the wax figures, and at that moment in Europe the seven explorers awaken in surprise. After swearing an oath to keep the temple's existence a secret,