Who Is Pasiphae? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Pasiphae is a In the Public Domain comic book character, the alter ego of Pasiphaë, with over 17 comic issue appearances. King Minos' wife who fell for a bull and bore him a son.

Who is Pasiphae?

In Greek Mythology, she is the immortal daughter of the Titan Helios and Perseis. She was raised a princess and given her hand in marriage to King Minos , of Crete. When Minos asked Poseidon to give him any creature from the sea to sacrifice in his glory, Poseidon sent a magnificent bull , and Minos found it would be waste to sacrifice such beautiful animal, so he ordered to be sacrificed other bull in it stead. But angry at him for not sacrificing the bull, Poseidon made the animal savage, and contrived that Pasiphae should conceive a passion for it. In her love for the bull she found an accomplice in Daedalus , an architect, who had been banished from Athens for murder. He constructed a wooden cow on wheels, took it, hollowed it out in the inside, sewed it up in the hide of a cow which he had skinned, and set it in the meadow in which the bull used to graze. Then he introduced Pasiphae into it; and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow. And she gave birth to hybrid, who was called the Minotaur .

Key facts

Pasiphae is of human origin and first appeared in "Vol. 1". The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 17 recorded issue appearances, Pasiphae ranks among the most featured characters in comics.