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Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion - Bulls
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Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion
All the sky gods are creators; they make the world, gods, living beings. Fecundity is only one element in their essential vocation as creators.
'The holy sky is drunk with penetrating the body of Earth' says Aeschylus in one of his lost tragedies the Danaiads.
That is why the sky gods of the Indo Mediterranean religions are all in one way or another identified with bulls