Pasiphae (legend)

Japanese: Pasiphaē(伝説)(英語表記)Pasiphae
Pasiphae (legend)

…son of Zeus and Europa. With his wife Pasiphae, he had children Ariadne, Phaidra, and Androgeous. Although he had become king thanks to a bull that he had made appear from the sea by praying to Poseidon, the sea god, he did not offer the bull to the sea god as promised. So the sea god made Pasiphae fall in love with the bull, and from their union the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, was born. …

From [Minotaur]

…A human-bodied, bull-headed monster from Greek legend. When King Minos of Crete did not kill the magnificent bull (Taurus) sent to him by the sea god Poseidon for sacrifice, the angry sea god made Minos' wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull, and from their union a child was born. The king imprisoned the bull in the labyrinth, which he had the master craftsman Daedalus build, and fed it to 14 boys and girls sent from Athens every year, but the monster was eventually defeated by the Athenian prince Theseus.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Pasiphaē (legend)" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…ゼウスとエウロペの子。妃パシファエPasiphaēとの間にアリアドネAriadnē,ファイドラPhaidra,アンドロゲオスAndrogeōsらをもうけた。海神ポセイドンに祈って雄牛を海中から出現させてもらったお蔭で王位につけたにもかかわらず,約束に反してその牛を海神に捧げなかったため,海神はパシファエが雄牛に恋するように仕向け,その交わりから人身牛頭の怪物ミノタウロスが生まれた。…

【ミノタウロス】より

…ギリシア伝説の人身牛頭の怪物。クレタ王ミノスが海神ポセイドンから供犠用に送られたみごとな雄牛(タウロス)を惜しんで殺さなかったため,怒った海神はミノスの后パシファエPasiphaēに雄牛を恋させ,その交わりから生まれた。王は名工匠ダイダロスに建造させた迷宮ラビュリントス内にこれを閉じこめ,毎年アテナイより送られる14人の少年少女を餌に供していたが,怪物はやがてアテナイの王子テセウスに退治された。…

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