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Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.

With Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, and Catreus.

She was also the mother of " starlike " Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minotaur, after a curse from Poseidon caused her to experience lust for and mate with a white bull sent by Poseidon.

" The Bull was the old pre-Olympian Poseidon ," Ruck and Staples remark.