In some regions, bull sacrifices linked to figures such as Crom Dubh.
They expressed extreme opposites of masculine and feminine energy: the cow being nurturing and loving: the bull, powerful and protective.
In the sacred precincts of Poseidon there were bulls at large; and the ten princes, being alone by themselves, after praying to the God that they might capture a victim well-pleasing unto him, hunted after the bulls with staves and nooses but with no weapon of iron; and whatsoever bull they captured they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of the pillar, raining down blood on the inscription.
The legend of the minitor says that the Atlanteans were bull worshippers, so the idea is that they adopted some of the Grecian architecture but still retained something quite different.
The Minoans on Crete, contemporaneous with the proposed time of Atlantis, practiced bull-leaping, a ritualistic and possibly religious ceremony involving bulls.
This practice indicates a shared cultural motif centered around bulls in the ancient Mediterranean, possibly influenced by or parallel to Atlantean traditions.
Zeus, the shape-shifting king of the gods, abducted the Phoenician princess Europa in the form of a magnificent white bull and carried her across the sea to Crete.
He became king of Crete (after prevailing in a contest involving a bull sent by Poseidon).
In Greek mythology the Minotaur was a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull.
King Minos of Crete received a special white bull from the god Poseidon.
Minos’s wife, Pasiphaë, fell in love with the bull (through a curse) and gave birth to the Minotaur.
Minos in particular became the eponymous figure for the sophisticated Bronze Age culture of Crete (the Minoans), whose palaces, art, and bull-related rituals echo in the myths.
The abduction of Europa by the bull is one of the most iconic scenes in Greek art and literature.
The transition from Taurus (bull cults, common in earlier civilizations) to Aries (ram symbolism, e.g., Abraham's ram sacrifice, later Mosaic emphasis) is often symbolically linked here.
1484: Papal bull gives official recognition.
Later, Looeamong explains it means "IN THIS THOU SHALT CONQUER!" He commands Hatuas to make a decorated cross inscribed "THE KRISTE, OUR LORD, SON OF THE HOLY GHOST," carry it at the army's head, and write edicts (called bulls) in lamb’s blood.
At once, Looeamong (the false god claiming to be Christ) and his angels provide a supernatural sign: a cross smeared with blood appears in fire, resting on a bull's horns, like a cloud of fire on a cloud of fire.
Blood-Smeared Cross on a Bull's Horns: This imagery strongly mirrors the ritual in Leviticus 16:18, where Aaron is instructed to put the blood of a slain bull on the "horns of the altar all around" to make atonement.
The cross represents the sacrifice of Jesus, which fulfills the "blood of bulls and goats" (Hebrews 10:1-11).
Resting on the bull's horns, this indicates that God's holiness (fire) is present and accepted through the sacrifice (blood).
Pope Boniface VIII in his infamous Bull “Unam Sanctam” declared that he was in effect the Emperor and the Master of the world and that “every human creature be subject” to him.
1484 – Papal Bull Summis desiderantes affectibus Pope Innocent VIII issued this bull after receiving complaints from the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer (also called Institoris) about witchcraft in parts of Germany (especially the Tyrol region).
In 1500 (with some related bulls or breves dated late 1499 / early February 1500), Pope Alexander VI appointed Heinrich Kramer as papal nuncio (an official diplomatic/representative role for the Holy See) and reassigned his inquisitorial duties specifically to Bohemia and Moravia (the historical lands that largely correspond to the modern Czech Republic).
Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Inter Caetera in 1493.
The bull gave Spain religious and legal permission to conquer non-Christian peoples and force them under Spanish rule.
The Bull
Ten kings ruled absolutely but met every five or six years at the temple to enforce laws, inscribe oaths on an orichalcum pillar, and sacrifice bulls.
Bull sacrifice
In her book series The Convoluted Universe, she details sessions where subjects recall Atlantean laboratories creating hybrid beings, such as mermaids (half-human, half-fish), centaurs (half-human, half-horse), and minotaurs (half-human, half-bull).
“…and they produced double-winged beings…and more people with legs of goats and horns on their heads…And others, cloven hoofed and more with horse bodies and human torsos…they have also wrought bull-headed men…and even other monsters…with manifold characters very different from each other…and many wonderful natures…whose images remain in the Temple of the Belos, one next to the other.”
The teaching associated with them includes symbols like the bull (for Osiris, representing "to go forth") and the lamb (for Isis, representing "to rest in meekness").
The Pleiades, located at the shoulder of Taurus the Bull, are central to these traditions.
Taurus has been recognized as a constellation for at least 16,000 years, as seen in cave paintings depicting the bull with the Pleiades as a star cluster.
In the Mithraic tradition, Mithras stabs a bull in the shoulder (where the Pleiades reside), with blood pouring forth, symbolizing a cosmic event.
Look west, beyond the V-shaped stars that form the face of Taurus the Bull, and you will see a tight cluster of stars that many people mistake for the Little Dipper.
Art and Culture: Minoan frescoes depict scenes of nature, religious rituals, and bull-leaping—a practice unique to their culture.
Religion: Their religious practices included goddess worship, with symbols like the double axe (labrys) and the bull playing significant roles.
For the next ten days, he assumes the shape of a bull.
Tishtrya is depicted in various forms, reflecting his mythological transformations: a radiant white stallion, a bull, a human figure.
(Hathor, a cow goddess, and Apis, a bull god, may be relevant here.)
See Jahi, taurus, the Bull God of Force and Authority
Jahi, taurus, the bull.
(See Tablet Biene Poit, the figure of a bull, with man’s face.) The spiritual meaning, force, or force of character, or energy to do, or decree with authority.
As the pope issue a Bull, of which the foregoing was the original.
Symbolism: Representations of the lunar crescent and bull horns, possibly linked to broader Middle Eastern cultural connections.
Bel sometimes wore a tiara with his bull's horns; the tiara was the crown subsequently worn by the Persian kings, and it became, in time, the symbol of Papal authority.
The Atlanteans having domesticated cattle, and discovered their vast importance to humanity, associated the bull and cow with religious ideas, as revealed in the oldest hymns of the Aryans and the cow-headed idols of Troy, a representation of one of which is shown on the preceding page.
Upon the head of their great god Baal they placed the horns of the bull; and these have descended in popular imagination to the spirit of evil of our day.
"Clootie" is derived from the cleft hoof of a cow; while the Scotch name for a bull is Bill, a corruption, probably, of Bel.
Less than two hundred years ago it was customary to sacrifice a bull on the 25th of August to the "God Mowrie" and "his devilans" on the island of Inis Maree, Scotland.
The first cut on page 429 represents an idol of the Moquis of New Mexico: the head is very bull-like.
like a bull his country he ascended after him3.
One of the next exploits of Izdubar and Heabani his servant was the conquest of the winged bull, a monster supposed to have existed in those days; but I must pass over this and other matters, to approach the subject of the Flood.
Donkeys: Named "TIY," the same term as the bull weevil, a pest known for destroying crops.
I will send unto this stranger God, who hath come to Paradise, a fire-boat a million strong, and every one should go crowned and arrayed with jewels and diadems, and weapons of warfare; and they should have shields and figure-heads of tau (bull) and aries (lamb), as symbols of my attributes.
I will re-establish the tau (bull), as the sign of my power.
Remembering, it is easier to walk beside a bull, and turn him in his course, than to come against him for the same purpose.
My signs should be a sword, a skull and cross-bones, and a bull.
My edicts should be bulls; by these should mine enemies be destroyed.
Yea, their sacred bull was taken from them and roasted alive.
And your* edicts should you call, bulls, and they should be written with lamb's blood, in remembrance of the sacrifice of the Jews in Egupt, through which sacrifice the Father in heaven delivered them.
And immediately, there and then, LOOEAMONG AND HIS ANGELS GAVE A SIGN IN FIRE, OF A CROSS SMEARED WITH BLOOD, AND IT RESTED ON A BULL�S HORN, even as a cloud of fire on a cloud of fire!
The wise man hath found Git'm'ow full of cow, i.e., receptivity, and Tau, the bull, i.e., forcegiving.
Tau, a bull, a projector (Panic).
Sign of a bull's head and horns.
His edicts are Tau, bulls.
I am the Tau and the Sed (Taurus and Aries, bull and lamb), the power and wisdom over all and within all.
Tau'baw, a bull, or Ti'taw, I am the T'taw.
I am war, I am Thaw, a bull.
My bulls should be the edicts of kings.
Jahi, taurus, the bull.
(See Tablet Biene Poit, the figure of a bull, with man's face.) The spiritual meaning, force, or force of character, or energy to do, or decree with authority.
As the pope issue a Bull, of which the foregoing was the original.