Pasiphae. In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, Pasiphae was a queen of Crete, and was often referred to as goddess of witchcraft and sorcery.
The daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Pasiphae is notable as the mother of the Minotaur. She conceived the Minotaur after mating with the Cretan Bull while hidden within a hollow cow that the Athenian inventor Daedalus built for her, after Poseidon cursed her to fall in love with the bull, due to her husband, Minos, failing to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon as he had promised.
Pasiphae was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid nymph Perse. She was thus the sister of Aeetes, Circe and Perses of Colchis.
In some accounts, Pasiphae's mother was identified as the island-nymph Crete herself. Like her doublet Europa, the consort of Zeus, her origins were in the East, in her case at the earliest-known Kartvelian-speaking polity of Colchis, now in western Georgia.
Pasiphae was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, and Catreus. After having sex with the Cretan Bull, she gave birth to the star-like Asterion, who became known as the Minotaur. Minos was required to sacrifice the fairest bull born in its herd to Poseidon each year. One year, an extremely beautiful bull was born, Minos refused to sacrifice this bul
The daughter of Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse, Pasiphae is notable as the mother of the Minotaur. She conceived the Minotaur after mating with the Cretan Bull while hidden within a hollow cow that the Athenian inventor Daedalus built for her, after Poseidon cursed her to fall in love with the bull, due to her husband, Minos, failing to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon as he had promised.
Pasiphae was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid nymph Perse. She was thus the sister of Aeetes, Circe and Perses of Colchis.
In some accounts, Pasiphae's mother was identified as the island-nymph Crete herself. Like her doublet Europa, the consort of Zeus, her origins were in the East, in her case at the earliest-known Kartvelian-speaking polity of Colchis, now in western Georgia.
Pasiphae was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, and Catreus. After having sex with the Cretan Bull, she gave birth to the star-like Asterion, who became known as the Minotaur. Minos was required to sacrifice the fairest bull born in its herd to Poseidon each year. One year, an extremely beautiful bull was born, Minos refused to sacrifice this bul
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