Unlike Minos I, Minos II fathered numerous children, including Androgeus, Catreus, Deucalion, Ariadne, Phaedra, and Glaucus — all born to him by his wife Pasiphaë.

Descended from Helios, god of the Sun, and Pasiphaë, she nevertheless avoids being in the judgmental presence of the sun throughout the play.

The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, again named Asterius, the Minotaur, half man half bull.

Pasiphaë had the archetypal craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull.

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Instead, Minos kept it for himself ; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite.

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos ' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned.

Mark Forstall ( or Marcus Forstall ), the secretary of the latter, compiled a history of the Zrins, tracing it back to the Brebers, to the tribe of Šubić, and from there to the Roman gens Sulpicia which, according to Suetonius, sprang from the love of Zeus for Pasiphaë.

Unlike the Carme and Ananke groups, the theory of a single impact origin for the Pasiphaë group is not accepted by all studies.

The differences of colour between the objects ( grey for Pasiphaë, light red for Callirrhoe and Megaclite ) also suggest that the group could have a more complex origin than a single collision.

Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.

Image: Pompeii-Casa dei Vettii-Pasiphae. jpg | Daedalus and Pasiphaë.

To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.

Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of her unrequited love: " the bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought forth in travail her reproach and burden.

The Etruscans, who paired Ariadne with Dionysus, never with Theseus, offered an alternative Etruscan view of the Minotaur, never seen in Greek arts: on an Etruscan red-figure wine-cup of the early-to-mid fourth century Pasiphaë tenderly cradles an infant Minotaur on her knee.

By his wife, Pasiphaë ( or some say Crete ), he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis and Xenodike.

It would be to this Minos that we owe the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisus.

In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, with zoophilia.

In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (; Pasipháē ), " wide-shining " was the daughter of Helios, the Sun, by the eldest of the Oceanids, Perse.

Pasiphaë appeared in Virgil's Eclogue VI ( 45 – 60 ), in Silenus ' list of suitable mythological subjects, on which Virgil lingers in such detail that he gives the sixteen-line episode the weight of a brief inset myth.

In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is reduced to unflattering human terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera tauri —" Pasiphaë took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with a bull.

Daedalus presents the artificial cow to Pasiphaë: Roman fresco in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 1st century CE.

In other aspects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination.

In mainland Greece, Pasiphaë was worshipped as an oracular goddess at Thalamae, one of the original koine of Sparta.

The geographer Pausanias describes the shrine as small, situated near a clear stream, and flanked by bronze statues of Helios and Pasiphaë.

His account also equates Pasiphaë with Ino and the lunar goddess Selene.

Cicero writes in De Natura Deorum that the Spartan ephors would sleep at the shrine of Pasiphaë, seeking prophetic dreams to aid them in governance.

Hera did not recognize Heracles and nursed him out of pity.

They nursed Audubon to recovery and taught him English, including the Quaker form of using " thee " and " thou ", otherwise then anachronistic.

An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Asena found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half wolf, half human cubs therefore the Turkic people were born.

She nursed him back to health following the loss of his right lower leg at Saint Martin and subsequent return to the Netherlands to recuperate.

Jahanara Begum Sahib, Jahan's first daughter, voluntarily shared his 8-year confinement and nursed him in his dotage.

) Garfield was forced to return home, where his wife nursed him back to health and their marriage was reinvigorated.

But young Clara was determined to save him, and nursed him back to health.

The 22 year old came down with tuberculosis, and Carroll nursed him through the long nights.

After extricating himself from his own grave and is nursed back to health by local peasants, it takes several years for him to recover.

He might have died of malaria, dysentery and influenza had the local tribesmen not nursed him back to health.

He was nursed by his brother, Doctor Jean Vieuchange, who was unable to save him.

Later, Euphemus has a dream of the clod producing drops of milk and then changing into a woman ; in his dream, he has sex with the woman, and at the same time cries over her as if she were nursed by him ; she then tells him that she is a daughter of Triton and Libya and the nurse of future children of Euphemus, and instructs him to entrust her to the care of the Nereids, promising that she would return in the future to provide a home for Euphemus ' children.

He called him down from the tree with three stanzas of poetry called englyn Gwydion, transformed him back into a man and with Math nursed him back to health.

He is then said to have dictated his story to Saint Patrick, who cared for and nursed him until he died.

Among other things, so that he would not be on the cross for more than a few hours before the Sabbath arrived when it was required by law that Jews be taken down, so that one of his supporters, who was on hand, would give him water ( to quench his thirst ) that was actually laced with a drug to make him unconscious, and so that Joseph of Arimathea, a well-connected supporter, would collect him off the cross while still alive ( but appearing dead ) so that he could be secretly nursed back to health.

He is nursed back to health by his wife, who feeds the fire that warms him with a whole log of wood.

When he arrived, the young man was supposedly near death, but Mrs. Jones nursed him back to health.