The Power of the BullRoutledge, 25 feb 2014 - 336 pagina's 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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The Mind of Man | 31 |
The Bull as Sacrificial Victim | 41 |
THE REALM OF THE BULL | 51 |
Settlement Domestication and Urbanization | 62 |
stylized bovid forms | 68 |
Catal Hüyük and the Bull in Anatolia | 72 |
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The Bull in the Eastern Mediterranean | 153 |
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Arabia and the Islands of the Bulls | 162 |
cattle | 187 |
Crete and the Bullgames | 198 |
The Bull and Europa | 220 |
The Bull in Cyprus | 237 |
The Bull in Mesopotamia | 85 |
a seal design from Uruk | 89 |
The Bull in Persia | 105 |
cylinder seal impression design on a ProtoElamite | 107 |
The Royal and Divine Bull of Egypt | 116 |
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5 | 128 |
8 | 137 |
The Bull and the Boys | 251 |
Manbull Bullman | 262 |
The Bull in Splendour and in Shame | 274 |
Abbreviations | 285 |
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