After Zeus won the Battle of the Gods and the Titans, Gaia sent the monster Typhoeus against him [see Origins].
https://press.rebus.community/mythologyunbound/chapter/zeus/
Zeus abducted Europa in the form of a bull and took her to Crete, where she bore him three sons, Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon.
Zeus may have been conflated with a pre-Greek Minoan fertility god on the island of Crete. This was the child and/or young male consort of a female fertility goddess. This would help to explain the story of Zeus being brought to Crete as a baby and living on Crete for a year in a cave [see Origins]. The Minoans seem to have sometimes worshipped this god in the form of a bull, and that might explain why Zeus sometimes takes that form. This is probably how the details of the story of the rape of Europa came about, solidifying Zeus’ connection to this god and to the island of Crete as well as establishing the mythological ruling family of the island (the Minoans were said to have descended from King Minos, one of the sons of Zeus and Europa).
God is etymologically from the IndoEuropean root word meaning Bull just as Brahman means Bull. This goes back to the Eland Bull Dance of 100,000 years ago - before human language developed. Clearly our lawns are tapping into some sacred energy dynamic. That's why the Cow Jumps over the Moon for example (from ancient Zoroastrian religion). Humans are synchronized with the water cycle via the reproductive lunar mating system.
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