Could You Help Me Seduce This Bull Please?

I remembered a sculpture that I found in a park in Sydney. Its a classical sculpture depicting Theseus slaying the Minotaur. The thing that particularly struck me was the hands of the minotaur. They looked so close to human hands that they made me empathise with the plight of the minotaur at its dying moment. Ill need to bear in mind the importance of details like that. I looked at the minotaur legend and found another few images. The first is from a piece of ceramics which depicts Pasiphae cradling a young minotaur. It was only when the minotaur grew to a certain size that he became so dangerous and was imprisoned in the labyrinth. Theres two things about this myth that i find of interest. The first is that Pasiphae (under the influence of an angry Poseidon) fell in love with a bull. She asked Daedalus, the master craftsman, the create her a wooden cow so that she could make love with the bull. I managed to find this painting of her getting into the cow with Daedalus aiding her. I find this absurd not only because she went to such lengths to make a bull want her, but also because Daedalus went along with this request. The second thing of interest is that Minos (The King of Crete and Pasiphaes husband) asked Daedalus to construct the Labyrinth for its imprisonment. So even though he was not responsible for either, he had a strong part in the minotaurs conception and imprisonment. I think I find this so interesting as Daedalus is such a strong example of the proverbial craftsman, instilled with a special knowledge of the way things function. Another strange twist is that Minos infuriated Poseidon which led to his wife being punished in order to punish him.
The minotaur also appears in the famously christian text of Dantes Inferno. Hes described in the following way:

Such was the downward course of that ravine;
And at the brink over the broken chasm
There lay outspread the infamy of Crete

That was conceived within the bogus cow;
And when he saw us, he bit into himself,
Like someone whom wrath tears up from inside.

My clever guide cried out to him, "Perhaps
You believe that this is the Duke of Athens
Who in the upper world contrived your death?

"Go off, you beast! this man does not approach
Instructed by your sister but comes here
In order to observe your punishments."

Just as the bull breaks loose right at that moment
When he has been dealt the fatal blow
And cannot run but jumps this way and that,

So I saw the Minotaur react —
And my quick guide called out, "Run for the pass!
While he's raging is our chance to get down!"…..