Field of Reeds

Obviously, it is quite hard for me to recognize this picture as the map of Europe,but, it is! Just simply change the way of seeing......or maybe another way is finding out a normal map of Europe then compare them...haha,simple!
But why Europe is a lady?
In fact there was no saying of Europe in the beginning. Europa was the subjectof one of the most venerable legends of the classical world. She was mentioned by Homer, the greatest poet in the history.But in the fate of "Europa and the Bull", she was immortalized as an innocent princess seduced by the Father of the Gods:Zeus. Zeus was absorbed by her beauty and transferred himself into a bull. Wandering with her maidens along the shore of her native Phoenicia, she was beguiled by Zeus.
The fact is that the story has many connotations.
Europa rode in the path of the sun from east to west. Indeed, one of several possible etymoligies contrast Asia, "the land of the Sunrise", with Europa," the Land of the Sunset". The Hellenes came to use "Europe" as a name for their territory to the west of the Aegean.