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Europa was the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician king Agenor.
Zeus, the King of the Greek gods saw Europa as she was gathering flowers by the sea and immediately fell in love with her.
Full of love for Europa, Zeus transformed himself into the form of a big white bull and appeared in the sea shore where Europa was playing with her friends. The great bull walked gently over to where Europa was and knelt at her feet. The appearance and movements of the bull were so gentle that Europa spread flowers around his neck and dared to climb upon his back overcoming her natural fear of the great animal.
But suddenly, the bull rushed over the sea abducting Europa. Only then the bull revealed its true identity and took Europa to the Mediterranean island of Crete. There, Zeus cast off the shape of the white bull, and went back into his human form. Europa became the first queen of Crete and had three sons with zeus.
At last, Zeus reproduced the shape of the white bull, used to seduce Europa, in the stars. Even today we can recognize its shape in the constellation Taurus.
The name Europa was given to one of Jupiter's 16 original moons. Europa is special, because it is one of the few moons in our solar system that may have liquid water.
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