To be honest, I have had a hard time trying to determine whether the animal featured by the statue is a cow or a bull. The horns made me think it was a bull, but then I remember cows can also have them. Then I looked at its lean body and remembered how muscular bulls usually are, and then I decided it had to be a cow.

...And then I went back to bull. But it did not matter in the end as both a cow or a bull symbolize life. And my interest was in the contrast between the lively sky and the dead stone, which actually pretended to emulate life.

Bulls have always been a symbol of virility and strength. They are represented as mighty and intimidating animals. In the case of the famous Cretan Bull, the magnificent white creature which king Minos had Poseidon to create to be sacrificed in his honor, the bull was such a fine creature that Minos decided to keep it instead of sacrificing it. (This really enraged Poseidon, who punished king Minos by making his wife Pasiphaë fall in love with the Bull; with the help of Daedalus—who designed her a most amazing disguise—, Pasiphaë fell with the Bull and got pregnant; the queen would later give birth to Asterion, the Minotaur, who was then put in the labyrinth by king Minos, so he could be spared the humiliation).In the end, the Bull became a menace. Meanwhile, in the general case of bullfighting, they are to be pitied. The thing is that these animals stand out because their figure is just too imposing to be overlooked.

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