DAIDALOS - Eyeshadow

DAIDALOS, from the Minotaur Menagerie collection. Daidalos (Daedalus) was a gifted Athenian architect, innovator and inventor. He is best known for building King Minos's labyrinth, Pasiphae's cow, and a myriad of gold automatons. He is also the Father of Icarus, with whom he tested his wings made of feathers and wax. Icarus flew too high and close to the sun, thus melting the wax and plummetting into the sea to his death. THE MINOTAUROS (or Minotaur) was a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete, daughter of the Sun God Helios. As punishment for some offence against the gods committed either by herself or her husband, she was cursed with the desire to be coupled with the king's finest bull. The Queen conscripted the great artisan Daidalos to assist her in the endeavour, and he built for her a hollow wooden cow, wrapped in a bovine skin and endowed with mechanical life. Hiding herself inside this contraption she conceived and bore a hybrid child, the bull-headed Minotauro