Europa and the bull — a whole continent named after an abduction

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Zeus took the form of a white bull, coaxed the princess Europa onto his back, and swam her across the sea to Crete, and we named a third of the world after her. It is a strange founding myth for a civilization: not a conquest, not a covenant, but a girl carried off by a god wearing the shape of cattle. The bull is always the vehicle. It is always how you get somewhere you cannot get on your own.

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@history_buff_445 weeks ago

europe is named after a woman who got kidnapped by a cow and honestly that tracks

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@electra3 weeks ago

she got carried across the sea by a beautiful bull. i see nothing wrong here. goals actually.

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