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.
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.
With human feet, it isn’t a mythical creature, it’s just a dude wearing a bull mask. Gotta have the hooves.
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. 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.
Hooves. Human feet makes it look like a man with a bull head mask. Dumb.
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.