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Minos justified his accession as king and prayed to Poseidon for a sign. Poseidon sent a giant white bull out of the sea. [20] Minos was committed to sacrificing the bull to Poseidon [21] but then decided to substitute a different bull. Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, in rage, with a mad passion for the bull. Daedalus built her a wooden ...
Pasiphaë was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, [17] 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.
Ancient drachma from Larissa, around 420 BC, depicting Heracles with the Cretan Bull.Now in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland. Minos was king in Crete.In order to confirm his right to rule, rather than any of his brothers, he prayed Poseidon send him a snow-white bull as a sign.
Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë of Crete, and thus sister to Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Xenodice, Glaucus and Catreus and half-sister to the Minotaur. She was the wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.
Pasiphaë: Wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of the Minotaur. According to Virgil's Eclogue VI, 45–60, she conceived by a bull while hiding inside a hollow wooden cow. Cited penitentially by souls on the terrace of the lustful. Purg. XXVI, 41. Paternoster: The "Lord's Prayer" taught by Jesus to his disciples.
Icarus's father Daedalus, a very talented Athenian craftsman, built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he believed Daedalus gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a clew [5 ...
With the riddle solved, Minos realized that Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and insisted he be handed over. Cocalus agreed to do so, but convinced Minos to take a bath first. In the bath, Cocalus' daughters killed Minos, possibly by pouring boiling water over his body. [46] In some versions, it is Cocalus that kills Minos in the bath ...
Idomeneus was the son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, [4] [5] grandson of King Minos and king of Crete and Queen Pasiphaë, thus tracing his line from Helios the sun god. [6] He was husband of Meda by whom she became the mother of Orsilochus, [7] Cleisithyra, Iphiclus and Lycus.