What was a daidalon?

Answer 1

A "Daidalon" is the machine that Daedalus, (the famous and talented father of icarus and Iapyx) built for the Minoan queen Pasiphae when she had become enamourmed with a bull. The machine allowed her to have intercourse with the bull.

The word has a more general meaning "an intriguing machine" or "a cunningly wrought object," such as Daedalus might have made. He's more famous for the labyrinth than Pasiphae's adventure, so the word has overtones of "labyrinthine," or even "deceitful."

Daidalon is the singular. The plural would be daidala.