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Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, had several children before the Minotaur.
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Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.
The labyrinth had been built by King Minos to hide the Minotaur, a half-man half-bull creature that was the offspring of Minos ' wife, Pasiphae, and a bull.
Pasiphae and King
In Greek mythology, Aeëtes ( also spelled Æëtes ) (), ( Laz and Georgian Aiet ' i, აიეტი ), was a King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus.
* Aeëtes, King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus
Pasiphae and Crete
The ritual copulation in Minoan Crete was related with moon-goddesses like Europa and Pasiphae, but this cult was almost forgotten by the Greeks.
Pasiphae and had
Eurypylus married Sterope, a daughter of Helios and sister of Pasiphae, and had two sons, Lycaon and Leucippus.
Pasiphae and before
Pasiphae did not receive its present name until 1975 ; before then, it was simply known as.
Pasiphae and Minotaur
Pasiphae and the Minotaur, Attica | Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix, Cabinet des Médailles ( Paris )
Pasiphae and .
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.
Pasiphae ( ; ) ( formerly Pasiphaë ) is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter.
Pasiphae orbits Jupiter on a high eccentricity and high inclination retrograde orbit.
It gives its name to the Pasiphae group, irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at distances ranging between 22. 8 and 24. 1 million km, and with inclinations ranging between 144. 5 ° and 158. 3 °.
With diameter estimated at 58 km Pasiphae is the largest retrograde and third largest irregular satellite after Himalia and Elara.
Spectroscopical measurements in infrared indicate that Pasiphae is a spectrally featureless object, consistent with the suspected asteroidal origin of the object.
Pasiphae is believed to be a fragment from a captured asteroid along with other Pasiphae group satellites.
* Pasiphae: The so-called Ferrymen of Oblivion.
In addition, the same simulations have shown fairly high probabilities of collisions between prograde and retrograde satellites ( e. g. Pasiphae and Himalia have a 27 % probability of collision within 4. 5 gigayears ).
However, secular resonances, known for both Pasiphae and Sinope, could shape the orbits and provide the explanation for the post-collision dispersal of the orbital elements.
The return of the bull should have symbolized his absolutely selfless submission to the functions of his role .” And the consequences were catastrophic ; Poseidon afflicted the Cretan queen, Pasiphae, with an unquenchable desire for the bull.
wife and King
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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.
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