Kōkalos (English spelling) Kokalos

...He became king thanks to a bull that appeared from the sea after he prayed to Poseidon, the god of the sea. However, he did not offer the bull to the god of the sea as a sacrifice as promised. So the god of the sea 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. He imprisoned the monster in the labyrinth, which he had the master craftsman Daedalus build, and fed it to 14 boys and girls sent from Athens every year as atonement for the murder of his son Androgeos. The monster was eventually defeated by Athenian prince Theseus, and Daedalus escaped from Crete by air using artificial wings, so he followed him to Sicily, where he was killed by King Kōkalos. The above are mainly Attic traditions, but there are also other traditions that say that he organized the oldest navy, defeated pirates, and dominated the Aegean Sea, while at the same time giving laws to Crete and governing it well, and that after his death he became a judge of the underworld, together with his brother Rhadamanthys, who was also a famous lawgiver, and Aiakos, a hero known for his piety. Both of these are thought to be faint memories of the heyday of the prehistoric Cretan civilization, also called the Minoan civilization after his name.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Kōkalos" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…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。彼はこの怪物を名匠ダイダロスに造らせた迷宮ラビュリントスに閉じ込め，息子アンドロゲオス殺害の償いとして毎年アテナイから送られる14人の少年少女を餌に与えていたが，怪物はやがてアテナイの王子テセウスに退治され，またダイダロスは人工の翼によって空からクレタ島を脱出したので，そのあとを追ってシチリア島に行き，同地の王コカロスKōkalosに殺されたという。以上はおもにアッティカ地方の伝承であるが，これとは別に，彼は最古の海軍の組織者で，海賊を平らげてエーゲ海全域を支配する一方，クレタ島に法を与えて善政を布いたので，同じく有名な立法者であった弟のラダマンテュスRhadamanthys，敬虔をもって知られた英雄アイアコスAiakosとともに，死後，冥界の裁判官になったとする伝承もあり，いずれも，かすかながら，彼の名にちなんでミノス文明とも呼ばれる先史時代のクレタ文明の最盛期の記憶をとどめるものと考えられている。…

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