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have already referred to her parentage ; and the names of 
her father and mother are allied to the Sans, f^-vrsa 
meaning ' ox ' and have been mentioned in the Yrsa group, 
her father's name, Minos, being allied to Sans, ^t^- 
mahisa (properly rf^-raesa and fq^-misa, h being a mere 
orthographical outgrowth) , q^^-mainaka and IpTT-mena, and 
her mother's name, Pasiphae, to fsp^-vrsabha. Minos was 
the son of Zeus and Europa, and as the word Europa is con- 
nected with the Sans. f^*T-vrsabha, :3^^-urabhra, and Ghr. 
6pei)<i, and radically means ' a cow,' the legend simply means 
that a bull was bom to Zeus by Europa, and his son married 
Pasiphae, a cow, in his turn, and this legendary interpreta- 
tion is sufficiently borne out by the continuation of the myth, 
that, by the curse of Ovpav6<i or Uoa-eihuiv Pasiphae fell in 
love with a bull and brought forth Minotauros who was 
partly of bovine and human forms. Minos I., the grand- 
father, was the wise legislator in every city of Greece and 
was made the supreme and absolute judge in the infernal 
regions. His equity and justice, the radical connection of 
his name with Sans, ^-vrsa, and the fact of his being the 
king of Creta, the Grecian original forms of which are 
KprjTa and KprjTT), remind us of the Hindu Krta Yuga, the 
first of the four great periods of the world, in which Vrsa, 
the bull of virtue, stood with ioMX legs and reigned supreme 
{vide the Vrsa Group). In Kpijrr) I see a trace of KpiTk, 
' choice,' or the act of chosing, that is, the human volition, 
or of Sans, ^-krta or ^Tcf-krti, ' action ;' and the legendary 
government of Kprjrr) by Minos and the standing of virtue of 
a bovine form on four legs must refer to the virtuous dis- 
position of the people in a good age. The Greek Kp-qra in 
its secondary meaning refers to the locality of the virtuous 
action and the Sans, ^-krta, to the age." 
Comparing the above stories and proper names, we can 
see that we have a series of mythical personages with bovine 
