Robert Graves has this to say of the activity in the Labyrinth: (White An image of her and an informative web page is at: Click Here She was the daughter of HyperionĪnd she fell in love wth the shepard Endymion. The resulting offspring which she bore was a monster called the Minotaur. Daedalus made a hollow wooden cow for her to get inside, so she could mate with the bull. With the aid of Daedalus Pasiphae let herself become impregnated by the bull. Him Poseidon had made Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, fall madly in love with the bull. Sacrifice the bull to Poseidon, Minos kept it for himself. This bull indeed certified that Minos was the rightful king of Crete. Poseidon had given a wonderfully beautiful bull to Minos with the expectation that Minos would sacrifice it to him. It is hard to connect Pasiphae with the Minoan culture if the name is derived in this way. Πασιφαη - Pasiphae - the name means ‘all shining’ related to Greek ‘παν-‘, ‘all’ and ‘φᾰέθω’, ‘shine’ from Indo-European and ‘keu-3’, ‘To swell, vault, hole’ and ‘bheigw’, ‘to shine’ Note that ‘πας’ also means all in Greek but the only I-E root is the one indicated. She was the daughter of the sun-god Helios and the wife of Minos king of Crete.
Pasiphae gave birth to the monster Minotaur and was also the mother of Ariadne and Phaedra.
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