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Far beneath the palace of the treacherous King Minos, in the damp darkness of an inescapable 00:00:00
labyrinth, a horrific beast stalks the endless corridors of its prison, enraged with the 00:00:14
bloodlust so intense that its deafening roar shakes the earth. 00:00:20
It is easy to see why the Minotaur myth has a long history of being disregarded as pure 00:00:24
fiction. 00:00:29
However, there's a good chance that the Minotaur and other monsters and gods 00:00:30
were created by our early ancestors to rationalize the terrifying things 00:00:35
that they saw in the natural world, but did not understand 00:00:39
And while we can't explain every aspect of their stories 00:00:42
there may be some actual science that reveals itself when we dissect them for clues 00:00:46
So, as far as we know, there have never been human-bull hybrids 00:00:51
But the earliest material written about the Minotaur doesn't even mention its physical form. 00:00:57
So that's probably not the key part of the story. 00:01:04
What the different tellings do agree upon, however, is that the beast lives underground. 00:01:07
And when it bellows, it causes tremendous problems. 00:01:12
The various myths are also specific in stating that genius inventor Daedalus 00:01:18
carved out the labyrinth beneath the island of Crete. 00:01:22
Archaeological attempts to find the fabled maze have come up empty-handed, 00:01:25
but Crete itself has yielded the most valuable clue of all 00:01:30
in the form of seismic activity. 00:01:33
Crete sits on a piece of continental crust called the Aegean Block 00:01:37
and has a bit of oceanic crust known as the Nubian Block 00:01:41
sliding right beneath it. 00:01:44
This sort of geologic feature, called a subduction zone, 00:01:47
is common all over the world and results in lots of earthquakes. 00:01:50
However, in Crete, the situation is particularly volatile, as the Nubian block is attached 00:01:55
to the massive buoyant continental crust that is Africa. 00:02:01
When the Nubian block moves, it does not go down nearly as easily or as steeply as oceanic 00:02:05
crust does in most other subduction zones. 00:02:12
Instead, it violently and abruptly forces sections of the Mediterranean upwards in an 00:02:16
event called uplift. 00:02:22
and Crete is in Uplift Central. 00:02:23
In the year 2014, Crete had more than 1,300 earthquakes 00:02:27
of magnitude 2.0 or higher. 00:02:32
By comparison, in the same period of time, 00:02:35
Southern California, a much larger area, 00:02:38
experienced a mere 255 earthquakes. 00:02:42
Of course, we don't have detailed seismic records 00:02:45
from the days of King Minos, 00:02:48
but we do know from fossil records and geologic evidence 00:02:50
that Crete has experienced serious uplift events 00:02:53
that sometimes exceeded 30 feet in a single moment. 00:02:55
Contrast this for a moment with the island of Hawaii, 00:03:00
where earthquakes and volcanic activity 00:03:03
were tightly woven to legends surrounding Pele, 00:03:05
a goddess both fiery and fair. 00:03:08
Like the Minotaur, her myths included tales of destruction, 00:03:11
but they also contained elements of dance and creation. 00:03:15
So why did Hawaii end up with Pele 00:03:18
and Crete end up with the Minotaur. 00:03:21
The difference likely comes down to the lava 00:03:24
that followed many of Hawaii's worst earthquakes. 00:03:27
The lava on Hawaii is made of basalt, 00:03:30
which once cooled is highly fertile. 00:03:33
Within a couple of decades of terrible eruptions, 00:03:36
islanders would have seen vibrant green life thriving 00:03:39
on new peninsulas made of lava. 00:03:41
So it makes sense that their mythology captured this 00:03:44
by portraying Pele as a creator as well as a destroyer. 00:03:47
As for the people of Crete, their earthquakes brought only destruction and barren lands. 00:03:51
So perhaps, for them, the unnatural and deadly Minotaur was born. 00:03:56
The connections between mythical stories and the geology of the regions where they originated 00:04:02
teach us that mythology and science are actually two sides of the same coin. 00:04:07
Both are rooted in explaining and understanding the world. 00:04:12
The key difference is that where mythology uses gods, monsters, and magic, 00:04:16
Science uses measurements, records, and experiments. 00:04:20
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Alicia M.
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