The label entire — man's body, bull's head, union of woman with bull — stands in one served chapter with its cause attached. Minos prays "that a bull might appear from the depths", then keeps the fine animal and "sacrificed another" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. I]. Poseidon's sentence is double: he "made the animal savage" and "contrived that Pasiphae should conceive a passion for it" [ibid.]. Daedalus engineers the union: "He constructed a wooden cow on wheels", sewed it in a real hide, set it in the bull's meadow, "and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow" [ibid.]. The child receives name and description in one breath: "she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur"; "He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human" [ibid.]. Minos, "in compliance with certain oracles", shuts him in the Labyrinth, a chamber that "with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way" — words Frazer suspects are quoted "from a poem, probably a tragedy" [ibid., incl. editor's note]. The monster's cause is bookkeeping fraud against a god: withhold one bull from the altar, and the herd's debt is collected through the queen.