GRGR(4) white, black, red

[Doug Millison]

I stumbled on this last night before going to sleep:

"White, red, and black, the colours of Minos' heifer, were also those of Io
the Moon-cow [. . .] those of Augeia's sacred bulls [. . . ] and on a
Caeretan vase [. . . ] those of the Minos bull which carried off Europe.
Moreover, clay or plaster tripods sacred to the Cretan goddess found at
Ninou Khani, and a similar tripod found at Mycenae, were painted in white,
red, and black and according to Ctesias's Indica, these were the colours of
the unicorn's horn"
--Robert Graves, "The Children of Pasiphae" in _The Greek Myths: 1_, p.
306, (Penguin paperback edition, revised 1960)


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