The Power of the BullPsychology Press, 1998 - 316 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? |
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The Bullcult in the Ancient World | 3 |
The Nature of the Cult | 10 |
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 |
12 | 146 |
The Bull in the Eastern Mediterranean | 153 |
2 | 158 |
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 |
1 | 121 |
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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