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Published: 2014-10-08 03:29:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 1961; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 9
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The Minotaur awaits Theseus, who has vowed to slay him.Related content
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Wow, it's been a long time since I read the Borges story; I'm due for a reread. I love the colors in this, and I like what you did with the Minotaur's face--humanized a bit, but not human. My first thought before I read the other comments was of John Gardner's book Grendel. I like getting the monster antagonist's perspective on a story. 
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The Borges' story is awesome. I haven't read Grendel, will look into it. Thank you. It is so wonderful to able to blend the beast and human features with the model to get just what I wanted, an aware but still beastly being.Β
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Really nice work, like this minotaur 
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Thanks. But what would you feed him? Not really a herbivore like Β his father. Β Β
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Hot dogs? He's so cute and cool at the same time; I'll give him whatever he wants. Almost.
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now the question is - does the Minotaur actually want to be slain?...
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Who knows? Because you asked I looked and discovered that I had the Borges' House of Asterion story. So I read it or (or maybe re-read?) it. I love Borges. Like so many of his stories, this one was very moving for me. Makes me want to do more Minotaur renders. Β I was trying to make the beast look less monstrous than it is usually portrayed, so I mixed the Tauran 2 head morph with some human ones. ("Not for nothing was my mother a queen.") Interesting that the Borges story was inspired by a painting (George Frederick Wattsβ The Minotaur.)
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I don't know the story - but I have always felt that the 'monsters' are credited with too little feelings. But I think that is a modern interpretation of monsters who looks at them as separate identities - while in earlier times they were manifestations of the dark side of humanity. So... they couldn't by definition be anything but evil.
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We humans are fascinated by both angels and monsters, understandably.Β
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