Icuras

Icuras Deadalus was a son of the royal house of Athens; he was also a brilliant architect, engineer, artist, craftsman, and inventor. He learned everything he knew from the goddess Athena herself. Deadalus had an apprentice who has his 12 year old nephew Talus. The boy was quick and soon surpassed even his uncle. He started to invent things the potter’s wheel, and a saw Deadalus was becoming very jealous of his nephew. Each day he grew more and more jealous of Talus. One day under the pretext of showing Talus the sights of Athens, he lured him up to the roof of Athens temple and pushed Talus over to his death. Deadalus had offended the god and therefore banished from Athens. Deadalus to Cnossus, in Crete, were King Minos gave him sanctuary. He amused the royal family craving them wooden dolls and creating other trinkets for them. Life was boring but peaceful enough. That was until Minos offended the god Poseidon by refusing to sacrifice a certain white goat, Poseidon shoed his displeasure by making Minos’ wife fall in love with the handsome bull. The Queen confided in Deadalus about her lust and taking pity on her made a life like deadalus, icarus, talus, son, king, athens, wings, sun, sea, minos, day, wooden, wife, very, told, royal, queen, poseidon, offended, nephew, making, make, life, jealous, higher, high, herself, god, gave, feel, fall, crete, control, bull, boy, air