Pasiphaë

For the moon of Jupiter, see Pasiphaë (moon). In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (English , Greek: Πασιφάη Pasipháē), "wide-shining" was the daughter of Helios, the Sun, and the eldest of the Oceanids, Perse; 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 hide in a fake bull and have a white bull that was sacred to Poseidon have sex with her. In the Greek literalistic understanding of a Minoan myth, in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering constructed by the artificer Daedalus, within which she was able to satisfy her unnatural desire.
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[Greek] The daughter of Helios and Perse, and wife of King Minos. She was the mother of Glaucus, Andogeus, Phaedra, and Ariadne. When Minos had the misfortune of insulting Poseidon, the god kindled a passionate love in Pasiphae for a bull. She had Daedalus design a construction so that she could mate with the bull, and thus she became the mother of the Minotaur.

Noun
1. (Greek mythology) daughter of Helios and mother of Ariadne
(hypernym) Greek deity
(classification) Greek mythology