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    79 moons, discovered in 1908, is named after Pasiphaë, the woman of the myth of the Minotaur. Pasiphaé is mentioned in Canto 12 of Dante Alighieri's...
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    The Pasiphae group is a group of retrograde irregular satellites of Jupiter that follow similar orbits to Pasiphae and are thought to have a common origin...
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    Pasiphae /pəˈsɪfeɪ.iː/, formerly spelled Pasiphaë, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered in 1908 by Philibert Jacques Melotte...
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    Bull (Ancient Greek: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur. Minos was king in Crete...
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  • Acronicta pasiphae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in south-eastern Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Israel. Adults are on wing from May to September...
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    Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, has appeared in works of fiction across several centuries. The way the planet has been depicted has evolved...
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    Verksteder A/S, Norway for Minoan Lines. Her first name was Pasiphae and then renamed Pasiphae Palace. She has a sister ship Cruise Smeralda, previously...
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    Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete and son of Zeus, and of Pasiphaë, Minos' queen and daughter of Helios. Others denominated her mother Crete...
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    father of Iapyx. Among his most famous creations are the wooden cow for Pasiphaë, the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete which imprisoned the Minotaur, and...
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    Poseidon arranged with Aphrodite for Minos's wife, Pasiphaë, to fall in-love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the master craftsman, Daedalus, fashion for her...
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  • genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. Its sole species, Pandemos pasiphae, is found in South America. Savela, Markku. "Pandemos Hübner, [1819]"....
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    his wife, Pasiphaë. Through Deucalion, he was the grandfather of King Idomeneus, who led the Cretans to the Trojan War. By his wife, Pasiphaë (or some...
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  • ruled by the traditonalist King Minos and his power-hungry wife Queen Pasiphae, who seeks the throne for herself. Initially on the run from the authorities...
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    variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos's pursuing...
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    lines from the play, such as "la fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé" ("the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë"), have become classics in the French language; but...
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    course of the 20th century. Himalia was discovered in 1904, Elara in 1905, Pasiphae in 1908, Sinope in 1914, Lysithea and Carme in 1938, Ananke in 1951, and...
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    deities Apate Hermes Momus Magic deities Circe Hecate Hermes Trismegistus Pasiphaë Other major deities Anemoi Boreas Eurus Notus Zephyrus Azone Chrysaor Cybele...
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  • romanized: Pérsēs, lit. 'destroyer') is the brother of Aeëtes, Aloeus, Circe and Pasiphaë, which makes him a son of Helios, the god of the sun, by Perse, an Oceanid...
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    was a Cretan prince as the son of King Minos. Glaucus' mother was Queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, and thus, brother to Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus...
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    which was the product of Pasiphaë's, a Cretan Queen's, intercourse with a white bull, initially allotted to King Minos, Pasiphaë's husband, as a sacrifice...
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    Aeacus Heracles Minos Rhadamanthus Triptolemus Trophonius Others Alexiares and Anicetus Aphroditus Enodia Circe Enyalius Palaestra Pasiphaë Sosipolis...
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  • Michelle Greenidge as the Tacita Gilian Cally as Hecuba Shila Ommi as Pasiphae ("Pas") Amanda Douge as Andromache Daniel Lawrence Taylor as Theseus Ramon...
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    23,404,000 km from Jupiter with an average inclination of 165 degrees. Pasiphae group A dispersed and vaguely distinct retrograde group that covers all...
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    bull which the god sent him, so as punishment Poseidon makes Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, fall in love with the bull. She copulates with the beast, and gives birth...
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    deities Apate Hermes Momus Magic deities Circe Hecate Hermes Trismegistus Pasiphaë Other major deities Anemoi Boreas Eurus Notus Zephyrus Azone Chrysaor Cybele...
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    means "bright". According to legend, she was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, and the wife of Theseus. Phaedra fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus...
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    versions, she cursed his daughter Pasiphaë to fall in love with the Cretan Bull as revenge against him. Pasiphaë's daughter Phaedra's passion for her...
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    deities Apate Hermes Momus Magic deities Circe Hecate Hermes Trismegistus Pasiphaë Other major deities Anemoi Boreas Eurus Notus Zephyrus Azone Chrysaor Cybele...
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    Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene (now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum) depicting Daedalus, his son Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her female attendants...
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    ✓ ✓ ✓ 5 Thessaly son of Caeneus Deucalion ✓ ✓ 2 Crete son of Minos and Pasiphae Echion ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 6 Alope son of Hermes and Antianeira or Laothoe Eneus...
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