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How do I get Icarus out of Crete in the first place?
Hellenistic writers give euhemerizing variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a tomb for him.
The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses (VIII:183–235) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent the knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public. He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept a strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus.
Pasiphae was the daughter of Helios, the Titan god of the sun, and Perse,[3] of the Oceanids. [4] Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis; she was the sister of Circe, Aeëtes and Perses, and she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Glaucus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Xenodice, and Catreus. She was also the mother of "starlike" Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minotaur. In the Greek literalistic understanding of a Minoan myth,[7] in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus[8] construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.
Daedalus ends up on the island of Sicily.
His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, and called the island near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Some time later, the goddess Athena visited Daedalus and gave him wings, telling him to fly like a god.
Further to the west Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus of Kamikos on the island's south coast; there Daedalus built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god. In an invention of Virgil (Aeneid VI), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily; long afterward Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.
The island on which his body was washed ashore was later named Icaria.
His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, and called the island near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child. Some time later, the goddess Athena visited Daedalus and gave him wings, telling him to fly like a god.
Further to the west Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus of Kamikos on the island's south coast; there Daedalus built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god. In an invention of Virgil (Aeneid VI), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily; long afterward Aeneas confronts the sculpted golden doors of the temple.
The island on which his body was washed ashore was later named Icaria.
Matsya
Feeling guilty about how fulfilling her lust with the Poseidon (the white bull) caused her faithful servant Daedelus to be condemned and imprisoned, Pasiphae called on her mother Perse to bring a ship close to the shore and called on the Hippocampus of Poseidon to take the boy to the ship (when you accidentally father a Minotaur, you let your girlfriend use your sea hore for favors). The dagger that Icarus carries bears a resemblance to Athena's weapon to mark him as a Metonied and has a hilt made of Minotaur horn so the hippocampus can identify him as the individual that needs to be taken to the ship.
As the daughter of Helios, Pasiphae is the connection to why Icarus and Daedelus would recognize Helios. I just have to figure out how Helios would encounter the two before the big conflict.
