Pasiphaë

Pasiphaë is an immortal sorceress and the mistress of magical herbal arts, daughter of the Titan Helios and the Oceanid Perse. She is the sister of Circe. Through Minos, she was the mother of Ariadne. Due to her husband's blasphemy, she was cursed by Poseidon to fall in love with his prize bull and give birth to the Minotaur.
==History==
===The Minotaur and Sorcery===
Pasiphaë 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 the Minotaur, after a curse from Aphrodite, request by Poseidon, caused her to experience lust for and mate with a white bull sent by the sea god, the love goddess only agreed because Pasiphaë was said to be as beautiful as her. She tried to stop herself, but nothing worked. In order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.
Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts. The fidelity charm she placed upon Minos, who would ejaculate serpents and scorpions, killing any unlawful concubine; but Procris, with a protective herb, lay with Minos with impunity. In mainland Greece, Pasiphaë was worshiped as an oracular goddess at Thalamae, one of the original koine of Sparta. The geographer Pausanias describes the shrine as small, situated near a clear stream, and flanked by bronze statues of Helios and Pasiphaë. His account also equates Pasiphaë with Ino and the lunar goddess Selene.
The Spartan ephors would sleep at the shrine of Pasiphaë, seeking prophetic dreams to aid them in governance. Again during the reign of King Agis, several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles from Pasiphaë's shrine promising remission of debts and redistribution of land.
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