Category:Tauroctony
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modern name given to imagery depicting the god Mithras killing a bull, typically featured on the cult reliefs central to Roman Mithraic Mysteries | |||||
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A tauroctony refers to the very standardized (and easily recognizable) bull-killing scene of the Roman Mithraic Mysteries. Not to be confused with a 'taurobolium', which was a type of Roman sacrifice of a bull to Artemis or Magna Mater. Unlike a 'taurobolium' (which involves real animal sacrifice), a 'tauroctony' was probably just a symbolic representation of an astrological/eschatological/cosmological event in the cult's myth (the "bull" probably represents the constellation Taurus).
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Media in category "Tauroctony"
The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total.
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41.13a Mithras gem.tif 1,350 × 1,030; 864 KB
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Acta Eruditorum - V mitologia, 1701 – BEIC 13361996.jpg 1,690 × 1,321; 177 KB
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Goderfredus-Christianus-Leiserus-Jus-georgicum MG 1247.tif 3,316 × 5,428; 51.53 MB
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Kircher oedipus aegyptiacus 23 mithras tauroctony.png 3,847 × 3,551; 296 KB
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Mithraic cameo, p123.png 897 × 566; 297 KB
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Mithraic gem, broken.png 1,098 × 566; 311 KB
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Mithraic Low Relief - Setif, Algeria.png 1,072 × 1,228; 1.15 MB
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Mithraic medallion of bronze.png 1,064 × 502; 364 KB
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Mithras-Relif 2.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 6.65 MB
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Mithras.jpg 2,266 × 2,118; 629 KB
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New spitz.jpg 2,048 × 1,365; 1.66 MB
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Sarcofago degli sposi con dextrarum junctio, castore e polluce, II secolo 03.JPG 2,304 × 2,838; 3.28 MB
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Yorkshire Museum - Mithras.jpg 3,417 × 3,892; 2.88 MB