minos symbol Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/minos-symbol Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Minos, his Loves & his Family http://toursmaps.com/minos-his-loves-his-family.html http://toursmaps.com/minos-his-loves-his-family.html#respond Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245901 With his wife Pasiphae (the daughter of Helios) Minos had many children, including two daughters, Ariadne and Phaedra, and a son, Androgeus. But Minos was a tireless womanizer, and weary of his infidelities, Pasiphae (an accomplished sorceress) laid a spell on him Henceforth, Minos ejaculated millipedes and scorpions, whose sting caused his lovers unimaginable pain. Only the Athenian princess Procris knew how to circumvent the curse. A lusty huntress, abandoned by her husband Cephalus (himself once the lover of the goddess of the dawn), she was seduced by Minos’ charms and his gift of the magical hound Laelaps, which never

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