…to her son that casts light on the Genesis myth. It's the myth of the story of Glaucus and Polyidos. Glaucus was the son of King Minos and Queen Pasipha. And when he was a young child, he was playing in the pantry of the palace one day, and he fell…

…too familiar with. Robert Graves, in his four volume study of Greek Mythology, gives it only passing reference. You may recall that King Minos was the King of Crete and that he was most famous for having built a labyrinth in which to house the minotaur.…

…house the minotaur. And I'm sure you know the story of the traversing of the labyrinth and perhaps you know that King Minos built the labyrinth, had need of it because his wife, queen pasiphae, was an extremely sensuous and experimentally minded young…

…who was actually a foreigner in Crete, said: I want to journey to my homeland, I want to return to my homeland. And King Minos was on the brink of granting the boon when queen pasiphae intervened and whispered in his ear and said: you cannot allow a…

…of this power to leave the kingdom. We must somehow gain his knowledge before we allow him to depart from us. And so King Minos backtracked and made a different deal and said: you can return to your homeland, but first you must teach all your magical…