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Pasiphaë

In Greek mythology, the wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of Phaedra and the Minotaur, the monstrous offspring of her union with a bull sent from the sea by the god Poseidon.

The craftsman Daedalus constructed a wooden cow in which she concealed herself to attract the creature.

Pasiphaë was the daughter of the Titan Helios, god of the Sun, and Persë, daughter of the river god Oceanus.



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