Ángel Álvarez de Miranda
transcribed us a curious story in his book "Rites and Games Toro," which takes apparently M. Curiel Merchan (from his "Tales Extremadura, Madrid, 1944, pag.321-323) who picked him up in Trujillo, Caceres.
Similarly we can see, first, that the principal figure in the story pivot on which the rest of the characters is a bull on gold and the genesic fertilizing agent whose belief shared several ancient societies.
That is the core of the narrative, the popular oral tradition has given us, and that curiosity is transcribed below:
" This was to be a king, who had a daughter, whom a Prince had disgraced and abandoned. The princess wanted her father bought her a gold bull was really like.
The king ordered it, and when they were doing was the princess and said that he did do so hollow, but that does not know anyone.
This made him the bull, took him to his palace and placed in your bedroom. She walked into the bull and there was no outside for several days. As the king saw it and for some time, sent for the whole castle, but to no avail.
few days later came the fouls things to eat, what the king in wonder, unable to find the thief who took them off, never suspecting that the thief was her daughter, who robbed and kept all the stolen bull. Then he began to remove not only things to eat, but all the good he could. For this, and especially not find the princess even though the sought, the king was very upset, very upset and got sick and had to call her son, Prince living in other distant lands.
By the prince and see a big gold bull asked the father to give it to her, but the king, weeping bitterly, told him no, that was a memory I had of her daughter, but when it died would be happy.
At last the King, full of grief over the disappearance of their daughter, died, and the prince took the bull to his home, suspecting that it was hollow and within it was his sister.
Soon to be the gold bull in the palace of the prince began to miss things to eat and all classes, and the prince had wondered who the thief and where they hide, until they thought to take the bull to his bedroom, also were not robársele.
One night, when the princess believed her brother was asleep, left the bull to continue stealing. But the prince was not asleep, he saw her and said:
- Ah! But are you?
- Yes, I am, but do not tell anyone, I do not want anyone to see me or know I'm here.
The brother promised to remain silent and not to disclose to anyone the secret. But after a few days, said he had to go to war, but that it would give orders for them to leave food out things for her to cogiera and not starve, and said:
"Look, sister, I feel long leave, but I will come as soon as possible. When you hear three slaps on the buttocks of a bull, go without fear, that I am, that I've returned from the war.
They embraced and walked away elm prince.
Similarly we can see, first, that the principal figure in the story pivot on which the rest of the characters is a bull on gold and the genesic fertilizing agent whose belief shared several ancient societies.
That is the core of the narrative, the popular oral tradition has given us, and that curiosity is transcribed below:
" This was to be a king, who had a daughter, whom a Prince had disgraced and abandoned. The princess wanted her father bought her a gold bull was really like.
The king ordered it, and when they were doing was the princess and said that he did do so hollow, but that does not know anyone.
This made him the bull, took him to his palace and placed in your bedroom. She walked into the bull and there was no outside for several days. As the king saw it and for some time, sent for the whole castle, but to no avail.
few days later came the fouls things to eat, what the king in wonder, unable to find the thief who took them off, never suspecting that the thief was her daughter, who robbed and kept all the stolen bull. Then he began to remove not only things to eat, but all the good he could. For this, and especially not find the princess even though the sought, the king was very upset, very upset and got sick and had to call her son, Prince living in other distant lands.
By the prince and see a big gold bull asked the father to give it to her, but the king, weeping bitterly, told him no, that was a memory I had of her daughter, but when it died would be happy.
At last the King, full of grief over the disappearance of their daughter, died, and the prince took the bull to his home, suspecting that it was hollow and within it was his sister.
Soon to be the gold bull in the palace of the prince began to miss things to eat and all classes, and the prince had wondered who the thief and where they hide, until they thought to take the bull to his bedroom, also were not robársele.
One night, when the princess believed her brother was asleep, left the bull to continue stealing. But the prince was not asleep, he saw her and said:
- Ah! But are you?
- Yes, I am, but do not tell anyone, I do not want anyone to see me or know I'm here.
The brother promised to remain silent and not to disclose to anyone the secret. But after a few days, said he had to go to war, but that it would give orders for them to leave food out things for her to cogiera and not starve, and said:
"Look, sister, I feel long leave, but I will come as soon as possible. When you hear three slaps on the buttocks of a bull, go without fear, that I am, that I've returned from the war.
They embraced and walked away elm prince.
One day they were fixing the maids in the bedroom of the prince and one of them said: "Look what bull
so beautiful is the prince.
went and gave three slaps on the buttocks. Then came the princess, and the maids, seeing her, said:
"This is the food you eat and steals things.
And caught and thrown out the window, falling into a bush.
A woman who lived across the street and saw the princess picked up and carried home. A few days later the prince came and started slapping the buttocks of a bull, but no one answered, and the prince's chagrin, became ill.
Her sister princess, being in the neighboring house, had a son, and learned that his brother had arrived from the war and was sick in bed. Then prepared a large basket of flowers and among them wrapped her son, putting a letter in his hand that said where she was. He sent a girl with the basket telling her to go to the palace of the prince with him, asking if they wanted flowers for the broken heart, but I would not give the basket to anyone unless it was the same prince. It was the maiden
palace, offering flowers, and did not stop until they entered the same room of the prince. He, seeing so many beautiful flowers, began to move and liked a lot.
The girl then said, "Sir
, below the more beautiful.
fumbled the prince and then saw the boy with the letter in his hand. He took it, read it and then went home to his sister, who was full of joy, asking how he had been out of the gold bull without waiting. His sister told him what happened, and the prince was furious and went to the palace and ordered the killing of the maids. A good woman who picked up the princess bore her home, along with her sister.
The wife of the prince, who did not know his sister, asked who was it, and said it was his sister, since then live with them in the palace, and they would raise her nephew as his own son, and as They had no children would make his heir.
And they all lived very happily for many years, retaining the gold bull. "
As discussed below Alvarez de Miranda, on the meaning of this story Extremadura, the allusion to a prince who dishonors the princess is a narrative ploy to deflect the primary meaning of the bull, which is "the true agent fertilization the princess ", as the interest of it, to ask his father to buy him a gold bull, can be interpreted as the desire to conquer fertility.
beliefs in ancient times on the bull's reproductive capacity and fertilizing power could convey, was a dogma that shared many cultures. Remember Egyptian women lifting their skirts to the Apis bull, when he went in procession and visited his church in Memphis and through the "Window the onset of Apis " sex-show him in the hope of obtaining the gift of fertility, or the Mother Goddess or Great Mother of Anatolia, which accounted with voluminous shapes, giving birth to a bull that symbolized the fertility paredros
giver of the goddess. 
Other similarities can be found in the myth of Pasiphae, who asked Daedalus will manufacture a wooden cow, covered with skin of the animal, to enter into it and get to become impregnated by the bull, the god Poseidon sent to King Minos of Crete, whose act zoophilic gave birth to a bull-headed son, " The Minotaur."
Or what about the goddess " Ephesian Artemis", the "Lady of Ephesus " Anatolia
Hellenizing in stage, whose image was represented, sculpture, chest swarm of hubs, which were nothing to Didymus of bull, as a remembrance of a mother goddess, similar to the Phrygian Cybele or the aforementioned Great Mother.
so beautiful is the prince.
went and gave three slaps on the buttocks. Then came the princess, and the maids, seeing her, said:
"This is the food you eat and steals things.
And caught and thrown out the window, falling into a bush.
A woman who lived across the street and saw the princess picked up and carried home. A few days later the prince came and started slapping the buttocks of a bull, but no one answered, and the prince's chagrin, became ill.
Her sister princess, being in the neighboring house, had a son, and learned that his brother had arrived from the war and was sick in bed. Then prepared a large basket of flowers and among them wrapped her son, putting a letter in his hand that said where she was. He sent a girl with the basket telling her to go to the palace of the prince with him, asking if they wanted flowers for the broken heart, but I would not give the basket to anyone unless it was the same prince. It was the maiden
palace, offering flowers, and did not stop until they entered the same room of the prince. He, seeing so many beautiful flowers, began to move and liked a lot.
The girl then said, "Sir
, below the more beautiful.
fumbled the prince and then saw the boy with the letter in his hand. He took it, read it and then went home to his sister, who was full of joy, asking how he had been out of the gold bull without waiting. His sister told him what happened, and the prince was furious and went to the palace and ordered the killing of the maids. A good woman who picked up the princess bore her home, along with her sister.
The wife of the prince, who did not know his sister, asked who was it, and said it was his sister, since then live with them in the palace, and they would raise her nephew as his own son, and as They had no children would make his heir.
And they all lived very happily for many years, retaining the gold bull. "
As discussed below Alvarez de Miranda, on the meaning of this story Extremadura, the allusion to a prince who dishonors the princess is a narrative ploy to deflect the primary meaning of the bull, which is "the true agent fertilization the princess ", as the interest of it, to ask his father to buy him a gold bull, can be interpreted as the desire to conquer fertility.
beliefs in ancient times on the bull's reproductive capacity and fertilizing power could convey, was a dogma that shared many cultures. Remember Egyptian women lifting their skirts to the Apis bull, when he went in procession and visited his church in Memphis and through the "Window the onset of Apis " sex-show him in the hope of obtaining the gift of fertility, or the Mother Goddess or Great Mother of Anatolia, which accounted with voluminous shapes, giving birth to a bull that symbolized the fertility paredros
giver of the goddess. 
Other similarities can be found in the myth of Pasiphae, who asked Daedalus will manufacture a wooden cow, covered with skin of the animal, to enter into it and get to become impregnated by the bull, the god Poseidon sent to King Minos of Crete, whose act zoophilic gave birth to a bull-headed son, " The Minotaur."
Or what about the goddess " Ephesian Artemis", the "Lady of Ephesus " Anatolia
Hellenizing in stage, whose image was represented, sculpture, chest swarm of hubs, which were nothing to Didymus of bull, as a remembrance of a mother goddess, similar to the Phrygian Cybele or the aforementioned Great Mother. Other examples could be cited in this connection that would not provide more light on analysis, but the sake of narrative, in any event, and contributed to testify to the existence of belief in the fertilizing power of the bull in its reproductive capacity and the special relationship with the woman, which was shared by diverse cultures surrounding the "Mare Nostrum ."
Plácido González Hermoso.
Plácido González Hermoso.
Bibliography: Angel Alvarez de Miranda, "Rites and Toro games" page. 62
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