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All things that exist today won´t exist tomorrow.
Kingdoms and empires struggle to rise
but fall to the breeze.
After a long war against the king of Crete, Minos
The city of Athens found itself
devastated by famine and hunger.
To placate the Gods´ wraith
the king Egeus of Athens accepted
to pay a heavy tribute.
Every year he´d send seven among
the most beautiful Athens´sons and daughters
to be thrown in the Knossos labyrinth
and being devoured by the Minotaur monster.
For years the Ship of Death hoisted its black sails
taking inside it a dreary load .
Until when - no more standing the suffering of his people -
the prince Theseus decided to go
as one of the prisioners , to kill the Monster .
His father tried in vain to dissuade him
but the young man was determined.
Egeus asked that if he survived
he changed the ship´s black sails for white ones
so he would know - Teseus was alive!
He agreed, and left to Crete
leaving behind his distressed father.
And the island of Crete opened its claws
to take the athenians .
It was at that moment that Minos´ daughter, Ariadne
fell in love with the valiant prisioner
deciding to help him.
And they wandered trough the Great Labyrinth
surrounded by the stones
guided by the fire, and the thread .
For how long they travelled those forgotten paths
nobody knows.
All things that exist today won´t exist tomorrow.
Kingdoms and empires struggle to rise, but fall
to the breeze.