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Just to confuse things even more, I had a children’s mythology book showing the minotaur with a human head and torso, with a bull’s horns and a bull’s body.

I can’t say I prefer illustrator Steele Savage’s take, but I respect his desire to shake things up.

Human body with as bull’s head. I don’t know about your human feet, but that sounds pretty unambiguous to me. :)

With human feet, it isn’t a mythical creature, it’s just a dude wearing a bull mask. Gotta have the hooves.

Looking at the vases from antiquity, its clear that the Greeks thought the minotaur had human feet:

I know human feet is proper classically speaking, but I think the hooves look better/cooler.

Human feet always looked too dumb on minotaurs to me. They look goofy and clumsy with toes, like bovine sasquatch or something.

“So any combination of bull parts and human parts should theoretically work.”

So any combination of bull parts and human parts should theoretically work. Read more

Hooves and hands. It’s a fantasy character. Hooves and hands.

“a bull with the head of a man” dredges up memories of the Dog with the head of a man from ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’, which makes him much scarier...

Gotta be feet. Bull on top. Human on bottom. Also they wouldn’t be cloven hooves as shown in the pic anyhow. They’d be bovine if anything.

I was going to say hooves till I looked this up:

Hooves. Human feet makes it look like a man with a bull head mask. Dumb.

Where did I get this certainty?
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Feet. Read more

Hooves, because human feet are gross.

OK, but how do Minotaur burgers taste?

I’m not sure something bipedal can function on hooves? Seems like toes are required for good bipedal ambulating.

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