Pasiphaë
| Pasiphaë | |
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Sorceress goddess | |
Pasiphaë sits on a throne, a Roman mosaic from Zeugma Mosaic Museum | |
| Abode | Crete |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | Helios and Perse of Crete |
| Siblings | Circe, Aeetes, Aloeus, Perses, Phaethon, the Heliades, the Heliadae and others |
| Consort | Minos, Cretan Bull |
| Children | Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, Catreus and the Minotaur. |
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In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (/pəˈsɪfiiː/; Ancient Greek: Πασιφάη, romanized: Pāsipháē, lit. 'wide-shining', derived from πᾶσι (dative plural) "for all" and φάος/φῶς phaos/phos "light") was a queen of Crete. The daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Pasiphaë is notable as the mother of the Minotaur. Her husband, Minos, failed to sacrifice the Cretan Bull to Poseidon as he had promised. Poseidon then cursed Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull. Athenian inventor Daedalus built a hollow cow for her to hide in so she could mate with the bull, which resulted in her conceiving the Minotaur.