The spring sun rose in the bedchamber window. Two women stood over the beautiful, sleeping Princess Europa of Tyre. "She belongs to me!" said one woman, "Born to me and raised in my land." The other said "That may be so, but Zeus will give her to me!"

At that, young Europa awoke, and found herself alone.

"What a dream" she exclaimed. "But who were the two women?" she wondered, "One of the women is the continent of Asia, but the other doesn't have a name." Thinking more, she said to herself, "'True Dreams' always come at dawn. What is the meaning of this?"

Europa rose and sought comfort with her girlfriends. "Lets go to the meadows by the ocean!" they all said, "That will get your mind off that dream! It's spring and they'll be covered with flowers!"

Meanwhile, back on Mt. Olympus, Zeus gazed down on the world, and spied the beautiful young maiden in the meadows. Enamored of her beauty, he went down to visit her. Disguised as a snow white, tame bull, he walked up to and laid down at Europa's feet.

Europa called out to her friends "Come, let's all get on his back! For surely he will bear us. He is so mild and dear and gentle to behold. He is not like a bull, but like a good, true man, except he cannot speak." With that, she climbed on, but before her friends could get near, the bull leapt up and rushed full speed to the shore.

Instead of going into the water, the bull leapt up and flew over the ocean. Europa, knew that the bull must be a god, and called out to it "Have pity on me, don't leave me in some strange and foreign land!"

Zeus told her "You have no cause to worry, for all I do is from my love for

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