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The Power of the Bull (Paperback)
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Everyone has heard of the Minotaur in the labyrinth on Crete and
many know that the Greek gods would adopt the guise of a bull to
seduce mortal women. But what lies behind these legends? The Power
of the Bull discusses mankind's enduring obsession with bulls. The
bull is an almost universal symbol throughout Indo-European
cultures. Bull cults proliferated in the Middle East and in many
parts of North Africa, and one cult, Mithraism, was the greatest
rival to Christianity in the Roman Empire. The Cults are divergent
yet have certain core elements in common. Michael Rice argues that
the ancient bulls were the supreme sacrificial animal. An
examination of evidence from earliest prehistory onwards reveals
the bull to be a symbol of political authority, sexual potency,
economic wealth and vast subterranean powers. In some areas
representations of the bull have varied little from earliest times,
in others it has changed vastly over centuries. This volume
provides a well-illustrated and accessible analysis of the
exceptionally rich artistic inheritance associated with the bull.
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