The Minoan frescoes show young acrobats vaulting over the horns of a charging bull, and every textbook calls it sport. We are not so sure. In a civilization organized around the bull, leaping the horns reads less like a game and more like a rite of ascent — a body passing through the god and coming out the other side. The palace at Knossos was, itself, a labyrinth with a bull at the center.
the production value on this channel about ancient cows is genuinely unreasonable
"a body passing through the god and coming out the other side" is just the ritual with extra steps