SHORT STORIES

The princess Europa and the bull

There were many metamorphoses that had to suffer Zeus the Mighty on the whim of Eros, the Aphrodite's messenger. But none was more commented that the story when Zeus came to seduce the princess Europa. For this adventure, the god transformed himself into a beautiful bull of bulging muscles and loving eyes. The divine animal had a glossy snowy white hair, and a big pair of shinning golden horns. The bull had also a black line over their eyes. All these, you know, are real signs that tell us we are in front of a bull god. However there were many more deeds that poets do not tell us, tied as they are by their keen sense of modesty. This wonderful animal had exciting genital attributes that were exhaling intoxicating outflows. The princess was looking entranced at those attributes, so well placed and so good in size. So she felt her bosom was filling and growing bigger with the sweetness of the outpouring scents. She was becoming wild with passion. That same night she could not sleep as she was turning continuously in bed. She was obsessed with that divinity of bull appearance.
    After a time and without farther thinking, she left the palace by a window, sliding down a rope made out with the finest tissues that came from the far east lands. Once in the floor, she went fast running to the meadows where it was grazing the bull that had stolen her sleep. There, under the moon, the lovers met in the silent of the night. Only the stars were the fortunate witnesses to sight the copulative mystery. So, nobody knows how it was achieved this love feat between the god and the princess.
    Even Hesiod in his writings keeps a modest silence about the details of what happened that on this unforgettable night. However pious people must meditate about such an instructive mystery.

Eminent glossators say that Europa was a princess of great character. This is why she did not have any doubt. This same night she deserted of all her riches, left her father and brothers and went out the country sailing to Crete with the bull.
    In this liberal island she could thoroughly enjoyed in peace the love virtues and wonders of the divine bull. It was so great a marvel the bull that nobody in the island made any malicious comment. They both were very happy and had three lovely children of semi divine nature. And these children were very much praised by all the poets in the island. And they all were singing their adventures in all the banquets every where.
    The cometators are all in accord. Princess Europa was very fine and she has never been wallowing in the mud for worldly trifles or trinkets. It was by the stern virtue of her character that she got a whim only with the noblest and more virtuous products of the market. Her careful education and the huge reservoir of her faith helped her to recognize at first sight the divinity's signs in a wonderful bull. And feeling the divine call she left everything and went quickly to give out her generous and tender heart forever.

This is a very fine story to meditate about the mysteries of love and the callings that we often hear from the gods.

This is a fragment from Afrodisia
     Author: Leopoldo Perdomo