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But as Philochorus tells the story, Minos was holding the funeral games, and Taurus was expected to conquer all his competitors in them, as he had done before, and was grudged his success.

For his disposition made his power hateful, and he was accused of too great intimacy with Pasiphae.

Therefore, when Theseus asked the privilege of entering the lists, it was granted him by Minos.

And since it was the custom in Crete for women to view the games, Ariadne was present, and was smitten with the appearance of Theseus, as well as filled with admiration for his athletic prowess, when he conquered all his opponents.

But as Philochorus tells the story, Minos was holding the funeral games, and Taurus was expected to conquer all his competitors in them, as he had done before, and was grudged his success.

For his disposition made his power hateful, and he was accused of too great intimacy with Pasiphae.

Therefore, when Theseus asked the privilege of entering the lists, it was granted him by Minos.

And since it was the custom in Crete for women to view the games, Ariadne was present and was smitten with the appearance of Theseus, as well as filled with admiration for his athletic prowess, when he conquered all his opponents.

Well, actually, so it's a two-parter.

So what I wrote to you was we've discussed the Minotaur before, but I now have two Pasiphae-specific questions because Pasiphae comes up as a villain in this book.

A villain?

Yeah.

And she goes to the crossroads and is approached by Hecate, and Hecate shows her these visions.

And basically one of the visions shows Hazel.

cleitius cleitius the this like 20 foot tall smoke monster giant and then i don't think there's a vision of it but it's at least mentioned that you're going to have to face off against cleitius and then the sorceress and then for a lot of the books she's just mentioned as the sorceress and then eventually gets name dropped as pacify and then when we finally get to the house of hades and the doors of death are on the surface side You've got Pasiphae and Caladius working together, and Pasiphae's whole thing is like, oh, I hate demigods.

I'm going to torture any of them that survive this war with Gia.

Jupiter loved Europa, hence the first rise of our family, disguising the god under the form of a bull.

Pasiphae, my mother, enjoyed a deluded bull, was in time delivered of her guilty load.

Perfidious Theseus, guided by the faithful thread, escaped by my sister's help the deluding labyrinth.

Lo, I too, that I might not belie the race of Minos, yield the last to the powerful laws of my blood.

They can make it work.

And if you can do all that you did against Passive A, I feel like you can teleport.

It feels lower on the list of experience points required.

I've been playing a lot of Mario Party lately alone.

I hope all of them see the light of day at one point.

My very first one was about Pasiphae in Minoan Crete.

And I'm starting to toy with the idea to maybe self-publish that one.

I don't know how, maybe in some kind of episodic form, I haven't decided yet.

And now we came unto the mighty tree which prayers and tears so manifold refuses.

"Pass farther onward without drawing near; the tree of which Eve ate is higher up, and out of that one has this tree been raised." Thus said I know not who among the branches; whereat Virgilius, Statius, and myself went crowding forward on the side that rises.

"Be mindful," said he, "of the accursed ones formed of the cloud-rack, who inebriate combated Theseus with their double breasts; and of the Jews who showed them soft in drinking, whence Gideon would not have them for companions when he towards Midian the hills descended." Thus closely pressed to one of the two borders on we passed, hearing sins of gluttony followed forsooth by miserable gains.

Then set at large upon the lonely road a thousand steps and more we onward went in contemplation, each without a word.

So we're going to talk about different ancient methods and one of the first references to a condom-like device was from King Minos of Crete.

He had a wife named Pasiphae who inserted a goat's bladder into her vaginal canal as a makeshift internal condom.

And she did it because his previous mistress had died.

Rumor that she died because his semen contained scorpions and serpent.

And we were all like, I don't remember her.

And once they revealed that her name is Pasiphae with an umlaut over the E, then I realized, OK, right.

Yeah.

At some point.

Could have been as early as book one, but I either asked Moya about the Minotaur or the maze.

And then she explained the whole thing.

So I never have directly asked about Pasiphae.

So I completely forgot until she explains it, which made the reveal very fun for me, made the explaining of it.