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In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (, derived from the dative plural 'for all' and 'light'; , or , ) was the daughter of Helios, queen of Crete, and mother of the Minotaur. After her husband Minos failed to sacrifice the Cretan Bull to Poseidon as promised, the god cursed Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull. She had Daedalus build a hollow wooden cow for her to hide in, which she then used to mate with the bull; afterwards, she gave birth to the Minotaur.

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Deity.type
Greek
Deity.name
Pasiphaë
Deity.god_of
Sorceress goddess
Deity.image
Gaziantep Zeugma Museum Daedalus and Icarus mosaic in 2011 1918.jpg
Deity.caption
Pasiphaë sits on a throne, a Roman mosaic from Zeugma Mosaic Museum
Deity.abode
Crete
Deity.parents
Helios and Perse or Crete
Deity.siblings
Circe, Aeetes, Aloeus, Perses, Phaethon, the Heliades, the Heliadae and others
Deity.consort
Minos, Cretan Bull
Deity.children
Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, Catreus and the Minotaur.

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Pasiphae
name in native language
Πασιφάη
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  • Family
  • Parentage
  • Marriage and children
  • Mythology
  • Birth of the Minotaur
  • Variations on the myth
  • Pasiphaë's curse
  • Daedalus and Icarus
  • Variations about Pasiphaë's death
  • Personae of Pasiphaë
  • Cult of Pasiphaë
  • On divination
  • Celestial deity
  • Other representations
  • In art
  • Scientific representation
  • Literary representation
  • In popular culture
  • Genealogy
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Ancient
  • Modern
  • External links

In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (, derived from the dative plural 'for all' and 'light'; , or , ) was the daughter of Helios, queen of Crete, and mother of the Minotaur. After her husband Minos failed to sacrifice the Cretan Bull to Poseidon as promised, the god cursed Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull. She had Daedalus build a hollow wooden cow for her to hide in, which she then used to mate with the bull; afterwards, she gave birth to the Minotaur.

== Family == === Parentage === Pasiphaë was the daughter of god of the Sun, Helios, and the Oceanid Perse. She was thus the sister of Aeëtes, Circe and Perses of Colchis. In some accounts, Pasiphaë's mother was identified as the island-nymph Crete herself. Like her doublet Europa, the consort of Zeus, her origins were in the East, in her case at the earliest-known Kartvelian-speaking polity of Colchis (Egrisi (), now in western Georgia).

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