(March 22, 2017 at 4:06 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(March 22, 2017 at 3:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: There is evidence that there were some sort of sporting events involving bulls in the Minoan communities on Crete. I don't know the exact details but I believe the humans involved were unarmed and the main purpose was to dodge the bulls.
No dodging.
According to wall painting, The game seems to involve young boys and young girls facing charging bull wearing no protection other than loin cloth. No weapons, no padding, no red capes to distract the bull. At the critical time the contestant is to face the charge bull square on, gasp the bull by horns literally, and sumersault over the head and back of the bull and land on his or her feet behind the bull.
Modern bullfighters are absolute wusses by comparison to the minoans.
Yes, that's the one.
Thank you. I was going to mention the bull jumping but couldn't remember if that was from a legit source or if I had read it in some fictional account somewhere.
Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:
"You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???"
