Others disagree, but bull-leaping has often been seen as a religious ... "The small bronze statuette from Minoan Crete, unique as it is, is also a very good indicator of this key commodity ...

Minoan Bull Leaper (made around 3,500 years ago ... because it confirms scholars' suggestions that bull-leaping on Crete at the time of this little statue would probably have had a religious ...

Perhaps the inspiration for Atlantis, Minoan ... Crete center around King Minos, son of the god Zeus and the Phoenician princess Europa. The thunder god had turned himself into a gentle, white bull.