The power of the bull
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TextLondon and New York Routledge c1998Description: x, 316p.; ill.; map; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415090326
- BL443.B8 R53 1998
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Part 1 - The origins of the bull-cult. 1 The bull-cult in the ancient world. 2 The nature of the cult. 3 The mind of man. 4 The bull as sacrificial victim. Part 2 - The realm of the bull. 5 The bull and the Upper Paleolithic hunters. 6 Settlement, domestication and urbanization. 7 Catal Huyuk and the bull in Anatolia. 8 The bull in Mesopotamia. 9 The bull in Persia. 10 The royal and divine bull of Egypt. 11 The bull in the Eastern Mediterranean. 12 Arabia and the "islands of the bulls". 13 Crete and the bull-games. 14 The bull and Europa. 15 The bull in Cyprus. Part 3 - The legacy of the bull. 16 The bull and the boys. 17 Man-bull, bull-man. 18 The bull in splendour and in shame
'This present study is confined to the Old World; that is to say the lands which run from south-western Europe to the borders of India. This is not to deny the presence of bull-cults in south-east Asia or the Far East, nor their importance to the peoples amongst whom they flourished. Its concern, however, is to try to define the ways in which the bull-cult contributed to the development of the psychology, religious beliefs and historical personality of those socieities which have their origins in the lands of the ancient Near East.'
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