Pasiphae was Queen of Crete, married to Minos, but enamored of the snow-white bull Poseidon had given her husband. Unable to restrain herself, Pasiphae prevailed upon the renowned craftsman Daedalus to construct a device by which she could fool the bull into thinking her a cow. Her plan worked; the outcome of the union between Pasiphae and the bull was a creature with a human body, but taurine head and tail. This bull-man was the Minotaur.
Before you go pitying her husband, thinking, "Poor cuckolded Minos," let me assure you that Minos was not the innocent victim of divine wrath. Poseidon had...
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