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[Michael Bailey]

I misspoke - it would have been  a cosplay *cow*, not “bull” outfit no
doubt (-;


& this is right while they are doing it: “…she evoking a casually
protective feeling, a never totally violated
               Pasiphae; until at last, having subsided, assailed still by
stupid frog cries they
               lay not touching.“

Protective feelings don’t really enter into the original myth - maybe
that’s the difference between ancient and modern?

Even though it’s a “virtuoso” session, she’s not totally violated. Which is
a Good Thing, isn’t it?

I think one of the things going on in the story is staking out a “temporary
autonomous zone” in which casual sex can take place without complete &
instantaneous damnation. “Tut-tut! But at least it’s not like they are
spawning a Minotaur”



On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 5:37 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I never understood that myth before.....needed "cosplay"...
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 5:33 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pasiphae - “a never totally violated Pasiphae”
>>
>> Poseidon was peeved when King Minos substituted a lesser bull from the
>> Cretan herd for the promised “most beautiful” bull in the yearly
>> sacrifice.
>> (Cretans living up to “liar” billing?)
>>
>> So he cursed Queen Pasiphae to feel unquenchable lust for that beautiful
>> bull.
>>
>> She managed to procreate with said bull, as one does, by wearing a cosplay
>> bull outfit fabricated by artificer Daedalus.
>>
>> From this union came the Minotaur.
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