Some historians and scholars equate Mithras with Horus, both being born on December 25th, like the modern version of Christ.
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Some historians and scholars equate Mithras with Horus, both being born on December 25th, like the modern version of Christ.
Posted by -Joel-Snapes-
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imo the bull represents primal urges (literally the bull is there to represent big penis’s & stupidity)
“Slaying the bull” is overcoming those urges. The idea being that a person can achieve more if they over come their base urges.
It’s a line of reasoning that gets repeated over and over through history. Big part of Catholicism. The Victorian’s were big fans of the idea too. Train yourself to think ‘higher’ thoughts & not ‘lower thoughts.’
In modern neurological terms it’s “think with your cortex not your amygdala.”
Unfortunately for the metaphor bovines aren’t greedy, so there’s no analog for that ‘lower’ quality.
Probably just a ‘thought artifact’ from a time when everybody lived closer to subsistence and greed was more of a hedge against an uncertain future and less cannibalizing society.
>Mithras is usually depicted slaying a bull (the kneeling bull might represent Zeus)
Might be some remnants from Indo-European creation myth. Zoroastrian version from wikipedia:
>Gavaevodata (gav-aēvō.dātā) is the Avestan language name of the primordial bovine of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology, one of Ahura Mazda’s six primordial material creations and the mythological progenitor of all beneficent animal life.
>The primordial beast is killed in the creation myth, but from its marrow, organs and cithra,[a] the world is repopulated with animal life. The soul of the primordial bovine – geush urvan – returned to the world as the soul of livestock. Although geush urvan is an aspect of the primordial bovine in Zoroastrian tradition, and may also be that in the Younger Avesta, the relationship between the two is unclear in the oldest texts.