'Pasiphae married King Minos of Crete and bore him a number of sons and daughters. As punishment for some offence against the gods - committed either by herself or her husband - she was cursed with lust for the King's finest bull.
The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daedalus who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child - the bull-headed Minotaur.'
'...skinned a real cow, and sewed the contraption into the skin, and then, after placing Pasiphae inside, set it in a meadow where the bull normally gazed. The bull came up and had intercourse with it, as if with a real cow.'
Pseudo-Appolodorus.Bibliotheca.
'The bull is depicting with proud mien, the leader of the herd, with splendid horns, white, already experienced in love, it's dewlap low and its neck massive...'
Philostratus the Elder.Imagines.
The queen enlisted the help of the artisan Daedalus who built her an animate, wooden cow wrapped in bovine skin. Hidden inside the contraption she coupled with the bull and conceived a hybrid child - the bull-headed Minotaur.'
'...skinned a real cow, and sewed the contraption into the skin, and then, after placing Pasiphae inside, set it in a meadow where the bull normally gazed. The bull came up and had intercourse with it, as if with a real cow.'
Pseudo-Appolodorus.Bibliotheca.
'The bull is depicting with proud mien, the leader of the herd, with splendid horns, white, already experienced in love, it's dewlap low and its neck massive...'
Philostratus the Elder.Imagines.
