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	Bull (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Egypt the bull was worshiped as the embodiment of Apis, and a long series of ritually perfect bulls were identified by the god's priests, housed in the temple for their lifetime, then embalmed and encased in a sarcophagus.
		For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred bull of Marathon (the "Marathonian bull") before he faced the Bull-man, the Minotaur.
		The bull is one of the animals associated with the Hellenistic and Roman syncretic cult of Mithras, in which the killing of the astral bull, the tauroctony, was as central in the cult as the Crucifixion is to Christians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bull_(mythology) (863 words)

	Cretan Bull - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Herakles, and the bull was released to be captured by Theseus later.
		The cretan bull which fathered the Minotaur was originally calm and sent from Poseidon, but the king (Minos) whom it was sent to fell out of favour with Poseidon, and so in some versions of the story, Poseidon made the bull angry.
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull, which Theseus was sent to try to catch.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cretan_Bull (492 words)

	Bull (mythology) - TheBestLinks.com - Aurochs, Christian, Christmas, Fresco, ...
		The bull was lunar in the north of Mesopotamia (its horns representing the crescent) and one of the animals associated with the Great Goddess.
		In the cult of Mithra, the killing of the bull, the tauromachia, was as central in the cult as the Crucifixion is to Christians.
		The bull and the cow were sacred in Old Europe too and cattle myths survived in Irish Gaelic myth: The tales of the epic hero Cuchulainn were collected in the 7th century CE Book of the Dun Cow.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Bull___28__mythology__29__.html (456 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bull worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From earliest times the bull was lunar in Mesopotamia (its horns representing the crescent), though we cannot recreate a specific context for the bull skulls with horns (bucrania) preserved in an 8th millennium BCE sanctuary at Çatalhöyük in eastern Anatolia.
		Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and was practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD.
		Bull attacking a matador Bullfighting or tauromachy (Spanish toreo, corrida de toros or tauromaquia; Portuguese tourada, corrida de touros or tauromaquia) is a blood sport that involves, most of the time, professional performers (matadores) who execute various formal moves with the goal of appearing graceful and confident, while masterful over...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bull-worship (2241 words)

	cretan bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull was either the bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphae fell in love with.
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull, which Theseus was sent to tray and catch.
		Theseus did capture the bull but when he returned to Hecale's hut, she was dead.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /cretan_bull.html (208 words)

	Theseus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aegeus's wife, Medea, tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull.
		In her honor Theseus gave her name to one of the demes of Attica, making its inhabitants in a sense her adopted children.
		While fictional, it is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theseus (2092 words)

	BESTIARY, Greek Mythology Link. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A she-goat with wich Zeus consorted and Aegipan 2 was born.
		Zeus turned himself into a bull, mounted Europa on his back and conveyed her through the sea to Crete.
		As Hyrieus was childless and asked the gods for children, they urinated in the hide of the sacrificed bull, buried it in the earth and from it Orion was born.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/BESTIARY.html (4327 words)

	Greek Mythology: TAUROS KRETAIOS Cretan Bull, Marathonian Bull, Zodiac Constellation Taurus w/ Pictures
		And by means of the ingenuity of Daidalos Pasiphae had intercourse with the bull and gave birth to the Minotauros, famed in the myth.
		Pasiphae outside the workshop in the cattlefold gazes on the bull, thinking to draw him to her by her beauty and by her robe, which is divinely resplendent and more beautiful than any rainbow.
		The bull is depicting with proud mien, the leader of the herd, with splendid horns, white, already experienced in love, its dewlap low and its neck massive, and it gazes fondly at the cow; but the cow in the herd, ranging free and all white but for a fl head, disdains the bull.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/TaurosKretaios.html (2436 words)

	EURYSTHEUS FACTS AND INFORMATION
		According to various sources, it was the bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphae fell in love with.
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian_Bull.
		The eighth labour of Heracles was to steal the Mares_of_Diomedes, however, Heracles was not aware that the magnificent horses were man-eating.
	www.palfacts.com /Eurystheus (930 words)

	The Marathonian Bull
		At that time in the Marathon plain a large bull was terrorizing the inhabitants.
		It is the same bull that Hercules captured and brought back from Crete.
		But Theseus did not waited for the bull to attack him, instead he attacked the bull first.
	www.steliart.com /theseus_the_marathonian_bull.htm (455 words)

	Marathonian Bull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull was eitherthe bull that carried away Europa or the bull Pasiphae fell in love with.
		On the way to Marathon to capture the Bull, Theseus sought shelter from a storm in the shack owned by an ancient ladynamed Hecale.
		Theseus did capture the bull but when he returned to Hecale'shut, she was dead.
	www.therfcc.org /marathonian-bull-231400.html (156 words)

	Minotaur, Greek Mythology Link.
		Then, while sacrificing to Poseidon, he prayed that a bull might appear from the sea, and he promised to sacrifice it to the god.
		Some believe that this bull could be the Marathonian Bull, which killed Androgeus, son of Minos 2.
		The Marathonian Bull was killed or mastered by Theseus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Minotaur.html (692 words)

	Minoan Crete
		From the unnatural coupling of Pasiphaë; and the Cretan Bull, Pasiphaë; became mother of the monster known as the Minotaur.
		As to the Cretan Bull, Minos was embarrassed that his wife had a monstrous offspring with his prized animal, so the Minoan king gave away the bull to Heracles, when the hero came to fetch the Cretan Bull as part of 7th Labour to Eurystheus.
		The Cretan Bull then came to be known as the Marathonian Bull.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/crete.html (3869 words)

	Theseus
		The Minotaur was a creature with the head of bull and body of a man. Minotaur was offspring of Minos' wife, Pasiphaë; (Pasiphae), daughter of Helius, and a beautiful white bull, known as the Cretan Bull.
		This same Cretan Bull was the father of the monster, the Minotaur.
		This Cretan Bull was brought from Crete to Tiryns, by Heracles, in one his twelve labours.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/theseus.html (3639 words)

	Winning Entry Bernice L
		The seventh labor of Hercules was to capture the Cretan (Marathonian) Bull.
		The Cretan Bull had raped Queen Pasiphae and fathered by her the Minotaur, who devoured the sons and daughters of Athens.
		Today, Saddam Hussein is the equivalent of the Marathonian bull, who rapes just government and “fathers” the Iraqi dictatorship, which devours its people’s free thought and sense of security.
	department.monm.edu /classics/Department/FoxContest/FoxWinner2003.htm (1979 words)

	BULL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Search the BULL Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the BULL Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named BULL at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/B/BULL.htm (73 words)

	Eurystheus was a mythical mythical king of Mycenae Mycenae and...
		According to various sources, it was the bull that carried away Europa Europa or the bull Pasiphae Pasiphae fell in love with.
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull Marathonian Bull.
		The eighth labour of Heracles was to steal the Mares of Diomedes Diomedes, however, Heracles was not aware that the magnificent horses were man-eating.
	www.biodatabase.de /Eurystheus (1011 words)

	Theseus Homework Page
		According to Plutarch and Philochoros, on the way to Marathon to kill the bull, Theseus encounters a fierce storm and seeks shelter in the hut of an old woman named Hecale.
		The Minotaur was a creature that was half bull, half human which was the offspring of Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, and a beautiful bull.
		Poseidon had given the bull to Minos with the assumption that Minos would sacrifice it to Poseidon but Minos could not bear to kill the bull, so he kept it for himself.
	www.thanasis.com /theseus.htm (4847 words)

	Greek Mythology: MINOTAURUS / MINOTAUROS Bull-Headed Minotaur of Crete w/ Pictures
		This canabalistic bull-headed monster dwelt in the elaborately constructed labyrinth and was slain by Theseus.
		THE KRETAN BULL and PASIPHAE (Apollodorus 3.8, Callimachus Hymn 4.311, Diodorus Siculus 4.77.1, Philostratus the Elder 1.16, Hyginus Fabulae 40, Ovid Metamorphoses 8.130, Virgil Aeneid 6.24, Suidas)
		"Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, became enamoured of the bull, and Daidalos, by fashioning a contrivance in the shape of a cow, assisted Pasiphae to gratify her passion.
	www.theoi.com /Ther/Minotauros.html (2048 words)

	Apollodorus Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the death of Asterius, husband of Europa, Minos succeeds to the kingdom of Crete.
		Inflamed with love for a bull, which Poseidon had sent from the sea, Pasiphae gives birth to the Minotaur, 3.1.3.
		Theseus, with the help of Ariadne, conquers the Minotaur, and flying with Ariadne resigns her to Dionysus in Naxos, 7-9, and on the death of Aegeus succeeds to the kingdom of Athens, 10-11.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Texts/apollod.summ.html (2807 words)

	Bull Worship Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	de Theseus Theseus or Theseos Theta eta sigma epsilon upsilon...
		Aegeus's wife, Medea Medea, tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull Marathonian Bull.
		She swore to make a sacrifice to Zeus Zeus if Theseus was successful in capturing the bull.
		Mary Renault Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" (1958) is a dramatic retelling of the Theseus legend and, while fictional, is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.
	www.biodatabase.de /Theseus (2039 words)

	Medea, Greek Mythology Link.
		From then on there was nothing that she would not do for the sake of the handsome stranger, so that he, escaping all dangers and performing great deeds, would become mighty and famous.
		Therefore, she betrayed her country and her father, helping Jason to cope with the brazen-footed bulls and the sown men, and leading him to the Golden Fleece, which was guarded by a sleepless dragon, whom she lulled to sleep by art and drugs.
		As the king ignored that Theseus was his son, conceived years ago when he visited Troezen, Medea could, at first, persuade her husband that this was a dangerous young man. Aegeus 1 tried then to get rid of the stranger by sending him against the Marathonian bull, which Theseus, however, either mastered or killed.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Medea.html (2072 words)

	era information,hera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When he fought the Lernaean Hydra, she sent a crab to bite at hisfeet in the hopes of distracting him.
		Eurystheus wanted to sacrifice Cretan Bull to era, who hated eracles.She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on eracles.
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming knownas the Marathonian Bull.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /era.html (1569 words)

	Images for Lecture 12
		Exterior: labors of Theseus (left to right: the Marathonian Bull, Procrustes, and Cercyon).
		Labors of Theseus (recognition scene with Aegeus, contest with the Marathonian Bull [before Kind Pandion]).
		Image 4 - A plan of the Bronze Age Palace of Minos at Knossos.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/classmyth/images12.htm (432 words)

	Perseus Vase: Louvre G 104 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Theseus, shown as a young boy, reaches with his right arm across the tondo of the cup to greet Amphitrite on the right.
		At the right, Theseus captures the Bull of Marathon, looping a rope around the bull's horns and feet; the bull is collapsing forwards onto its face.
		As in the other scenes, Theseus has hung his clothing and sword in a tree, and fights in heroic nudity; his traveler's cap is shown in the field.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vaseindex?entry=Louvre+G+104 (815 words)

	The Monsters of Herakles
		The Kretan Bull who was in the bloodlline of Inachos and Io was the target of Herakles seventh task.
		Herakles went to Minos to ask for the Kretan Bull and when permission was granted he took the bull back to Eurystheus.
		It is said that the Kretan Bull was later called the Marathonian Bull and that the Athenian hero Theseus killed it.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/monsters.htm (1122 words)

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