Cities of Dreams by Stan Gooch
Author:Stan Gooch [Gooch, Stan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ancient Civilisations, History, Non-Fiction, Personalities, Social History
ISBN: 9781898541028
Google: tYjTAAAACAAJ
Publisher: Aulis
Published: 1995-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
But although the bull is a natural emblem of fertilising power, it appears, I think conclusively, that the primary ground for the equation and for the widespread identification of gods with bulls was the assimilation of the horned animal to the moon. In the great religions in which bull-gods are most prominent, the divine bull is either expressly identified with the moon, or is specially associated with those gods who are most unequiv-ocally regarded as moon gods. The horns of cattle and the lunar crescent are interchangeable.18
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