Talk:Bull (mythology)
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Bulll of Heaven: The Bull of Heaven is the constellation we call Taurus. He is controlled by the sky god Anu. The Bull of Heaven appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. After Gilgamesh upsets the goddess Ishtar, she convinces her father Anu to send the Bull of Heaven to earth to destroy the crops and kill people. However, Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull of Heaven.
The gods are angry that the Bull of Heaven has been killed. As punishment for killing the bull Enkidu falls ill and dies.
[edit] See also
Anything here to edit into the article? --Wetman 02:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Word Choice
"When the heroes of the new Indo-European culture arrived in the Aegean basin..." It's not clear to me why the word "heroes" was used here. It makes no sense in a historical or anthropological context and, indeed, is somewhat offensive. [funkendub]
- Agreed - shortened to "When the new Indo-European ..." --Damate
- The word makes perfect sense in a mythological context. —Charles P._(Mirv) 19:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- Unbelievable confidence. Where do they get it from, one wonders? --Wetman 20:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps moving "in the form of the myths that have survived" to the beginning of the sentence will help - and then expounding on which myths and letting the Minoan context continue in a new paragraph. Otherwise, the myth context reads as an afterthought, while "hero" reads as being culturally biased. Maybe providing the context beforehand will reduce the sense of bias. --Damate
- An article by Anita Stratos, "Divine cults of the sacred bulls" (google it), a popularized summary of Egyptian bull cults, has been silently deleted from the References, because its host site, www.touregypt.net/ is a blacklisted commercial site. --Wetman 05:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
