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Cadmus
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The Quest for Europa and the Delphic Oracle
Cadmus was originally sent by his father, Agenor, King of Tyre, to locate his abducted sister, Europa, who had been carried away by Zeus in the form of a white bull. Cadmus’s fruitless search led him eventually to Delphi, where the Oracle redirected his purpose. Instead of continuing the search for Europa—whose fate was already divinely sealed—he was commanded to abandon his quest and instead follow a specific, divinely marked cow until it lay down to rest. At that location, Cadmus …