  in greek mythology, pasiphaÃ« (;  pasiphÃ¡Ä, "wide-shining")an attribute of the moon, as pausanias remarked in passing (i.43.96): compare euryphaessa; if pasiphÃ¡Ä is an ancient conventional minoan epithet translated into greek, it would be a "loan translation", or calque. was the daughter of helios, the sun, by the eldesthesiod, theogony 346. of the oceanids, perse.pasiphaÃ« was thus the half-sister of aeÃ«tes and of circe. diodorus siculus (4.60.4) made the mother of pasiphaÃ« the island-nymph crete herself. == family == like her doublet europa, her origins were in the east, in her case at colchis, she was the sister of circe, she was given in marriage to king minos of crete. with minos, she was the mother of acacallis, ariadne, androgeus, glaucus, deucalion, phaedra, xenodice, and catreus. she was also the mother of "starlike" asterion, called by the greeks the minotaur, after a curse from poseidon caused her to experience lust for and mate with a white bull sent by poseidon.pseudo-apollodorus, bibliotheke 3.1.4"the bull was the old pre-olympian poseidon," ruck and staples remark.ruck and staples 1994:213.  in the greek literalistic understanding of a minoan myth,specific astrological or calendrical interpretations of the mystic mating of the "wide-shining" daughter of the sun with a mythological bull, transformed into an unnatural curse in hellene myth, are prone to variability and debate. in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the athenian artificer daedalusdaedalus was of the line of the chthonic king at athens erechtheus. construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.greek myth characteristically emphasizes the accursed unnaturalness of a mystical marriage conceived literally as m
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