honored bulls as sacred. In the Sumerian religion, Marduk is the "bull of Utu". In Hinduism, Shiva's steed is Nandi, the Bull. The sacred bull survives...
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emerged in America in the late 19th century. A literal sacred cow or sacred bull is an actual cow or bull that is treated with sincere respect. One writer has...
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Apis (deity) (redirect from Apis Bull)
religion, Apis or Hapis, alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh, was a sacred bull or multiple sacred bulls worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of...
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other animals, some bulls have been regarded as pets. The singer Charo, for instance, has owned a pet bull named Manolo. Sacred bulls have held a place...
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Golden calf (category Sacred bulls)
a sacred bull through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism. Among the Canaanites, some of whom would become the Israelites, the bull was...
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In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull (Ancient Greek: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur...
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religion and mythology, object of reverence, including: Sacred bull, including ancient religions Bull of Heaven in Sumerian mythology Auðumbla and Gavaevodata...
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Nandi (Hinduism) (redirect from Nandi Bull)
Nandi (Sanskrit: नन्दि), also known as Nandikeshvara or Nandideva, is the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva. He is also the guardian deity of Kailash...
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Buchis (redirect from Buchis bull)
Montu as a sacred bull that was worshipped in the region of Hermonthis.: 95 In order to being chosen as the Buchis incarnation of Montu, a bull was required...
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Bull-leaping (Ancient Greek: ταυροκαθάψια, taurokathapsia) is a term for various types of non-violent bull fighting. Some are based on an ancient ritual...
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museum. In 2011, "Kao, the sacred bull" was produced by the Laihui Ensemble. This theatrical show was based on the story of the bull Kao. According to the...
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Cattle in religion and mythology (redirect from Cow is sacred)
Egyptian cities kept sacred bulls that were said to be incarnations of divine powers, including the Mnevis bull, Buchis bull, and the Apis bull, which was regarded...
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Dodda Basavana Gudi (redirect from Bull Temple)
Karnataka. The Hindu temple is inside a park called Bugle Rock. The bull referred to is a sacred Hindu demi-god, known as Nandi; Nandi is a close devotee and...
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Horns of Consecration (category Sacred bulls)
civilization, that is usually thought to represent the horns of the sacred bull. Sir Arthur Evans concluded, after noting numerous examples in Minoan...
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Taurus (constellation) (redirect from Taurus the Bull)
Taurus (Latin, 'Bull') is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the northern celestial hemisphere. Taurus is a large and prominent...
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special sacred bull had dozens of servants and wore precious crowns and bibs. In Egyptian art, Montu was depicted as a falcon-headed or bull-headed man...
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Daharat et-Tawileh), in the West Bank. The site is named for the bronze sacred bull statuette which was found at the site in 1977. The site is located on...
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(Kríti), where the sacred bull was paramount. In the more familiar telling she was seduced by the god Zeus in the form of a bull, who breathed from his...
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be a mortuary chamber designed exclusively for the embalming of the sacred bull. A stele found at Saqqara shows that Nectanebo II had ordered the restoration...
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Nongban (section Kao, the sacred bull)
notes. In 2011, "Kao, the sacred bull" was produced by the Laihui Ensemble. This theatrical show was based on the story of Kao (bull) captured by Khuman Khamba...
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built c.1280 BC, show the pharaoh holding a lasso, then holding onto a bull roped around the horns. Huns are recorded as using lassos in battle to ensnare...
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Mithraism (section Bull-slaying scene)
anything to do with killing a bull."(p 8) In every mithraeum the centerpiece was a representation of Mithras killing a sacred bull, an act called the tauroctony...
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Bullfighting (redirect from Bull fight)
ancient Iranian practice of Bull sacrifice are reflected in Zoroaster's Gathas and the Avesta. The killing of the sacred bull (tauroctony) is the essential...
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symbols instead of Khmer script. Preah Ko (Khmer: ប្រាសាទព្រះគោ, "The Sacred Bull") was the first temple to be built in the ancient and now defunct city...
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in Egypt, Cambyses wounds the thigh of the sacred bull worshipped as the god Apis, and when the sacred bull dies from the wound, Cambyses loses his already...
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central shrine dedicated to Shiva, and an image of his mount Nandi (the sacred bull). The central shrine housing the lingam features a flat-roofed mandapa...
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has a total of five precincts, each of which holds a huge Nandi, the sacred bull of Shiva. Towers include the Vallala Maharaja Gopuram and Kili Gopuram...
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Serapeum of Saqqara (category Sacred bulls)
the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. It was believed that the bulls were incarnations of the god Ptah, which...
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Khuman Khamba (section Kao, the sacred bull)
Ensemble produced an opera named "Kao, the sacred bull". It is based on the story of Khamba capturing the Kao bull. In 2019, a painting titled "Khambana Kao...
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Mnevis (redirect from Mnevis bull)
Greek: Μνέυις, Coptic: ⲉⲙⲛⲉⲩⲓ) is the Hellenized name of an ancient Egyptian bull god which had its centre of worship at Heliopolis, and was known to the ancient...
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