The princess Europe
and the bull.

   There were many metamorphosis that Zeus, the Mighty, had to suffer because of the whims of Eros, the Aphrodite's messenger.  But none is better known or was more commented than that when the God of Thunder came to seduce the princess Europe.  For this adventure, the god transformed himself into a beautiful bull with bulked muscles and loving eyes.  The divine animal had a glossy hair, as white as snow, and a pair of shinning and golden horns.  Also he had a black line that went from over his eyes to the front.  All this, you know, are the very signs that tell us we are in front of a bull-god.  But there is more to this than the poets tell us;  tied as they are by their sense of modesty.  This wonderful animal had exciting genital attributes that exhaled intoxicating outflows.  The princess was entranced looking at those attributes, so well placed and so good in size.  She felt her chest was filling and growing with the sweetness of those outflows. So it was not wonder that she become wild of passion.  That night she could not sleep at all and was turning continuously in bed.  She was obsessed with the divinity of bull appearance. 
   After a time, without farther thinking, she left  by a palace window, sliding down a rope made out of the finest eastern tissues.  Once in the ground, she went fast running to the meadows where the bull, that had stolen her sleep,  was grazing.   There, under the moon, the lovers met in the silent of the night.  Only the stars were the fortunate witnesses of the copulative mystery.  So, nobody knows how the love feat between the god and the princess was achieved . 

   The same Hesiod, in his poems, keep a modest silence about the details of this unforgettable night.  But the pious people can meditate about such instructive a mystery.

   Glossators say that Europe was a princess of great character.  This is why she did not have the slightest doubt.  In just a night of resolution she deserted of all her riches, she left her powerful father and all her brave  brothers, sailing out to Crete with the mighty bull. 
   In this liberal island she could thoroughly enjoyed in peace the love wonders of the divine bull.  It was so great  a marvel that nobody in the island made the least malicious comment about.  They were very happy forever and ever.  And had three lovely children of demi-godly nature.  And they were much praised by all poets in the island. They wandered  out  by paths on plains and mountains singing the adventures of the godly children and never missed any banquet or celebration in the island.   
   The glossators are all in accord. The princess Europe was a very fine lady and she has never wallowed in the mud for the worldly trifles and trinkets.  It is by this stern virtue of her own character that she only had a whim with the more noble and virtuous products of the market.  Her careful education and the huge reservoir of her faith helped her to recognize, at first sight, the signs of a god in a wonderful bull.  As she was feeling the divine call,  she left everything and went out in amoment to deliver her tender heart to the bull.  
  This is a fine mystery to meditate about love.  And also it helps us to recall about all those fine ladies and princesses tha hear the calling of the gods.  Meditate on the mystery, my dear folks.

                                       Excerpt from Aphrodisia 
                                                       Author: Leopoldo Perdomo
 

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Last corrected, Dic. the 15th, 1999

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