PS: Minotaur

The Minotaur, also known as the Minotaur, is a symbol of chaos, evil, power, and killing, a classic monster in a fantasy world. Biquge.infominotaur is a compound word consisting of minos for Minoan culture plus the Latin word taurus for bull, which literally translates to "the bull of Minoan". Therefore, almost all articles about the Minotaur must have a story about Crete. But in fact, there is only one bull head in this story, and he was dropped by the big hero K only by showing a small face at the end of the maze, which is purely a trick and not representative. His strength is not strong, and his only specialty is that he is well-known, and he is not even the "earliest bull head".

1. Minotaur

The Minotaur, also known as the Minotaur, is a symbol of chaos, evil, power, and killing, a classic monster in a fantasy world. Minotaur is a compound word consisting of minos for Minoan culture plus the Latin word taurus for bull, literally translated as "the bull of Minoan". Therefore, almost all articles about the Minotaur must have a story about Crete. But in fact, there is only one bull head in this story, and he was dropped by the big hero K only by showing a small face at the end of the maze, which is purely a trick and not representative. His strength is not strong, and his only specialty is that he is well-known, and he is not even the "earliest bull head".

Second, the Minotaur Divine Race

1. Egypt

The worship of sacred cows in Egypt was quite early, reaching its peak around the Middle Kingdom period in 20401640BC. With Memphis as the center, it connects the worship of the sacred eagle in the Old Kingdom period and the worship of the holy sheep in the New Kingdom period (which happens to contrast with the oviparous mythology and bird totem culture in China, and Yin Shang is also the worship of the Xuanniao totem. Legend has it that their ancestor Deed was conceived by their mother Jane Di after swallowing swallow eggs).

(1) Appis

Among the Egyptian gods, the head of the bull is represented by Apis, the god of fertility and production, in the form of a bull (xie note: this god is probably related to the god Baal, yes, that is, the "the" sun god Baal, and even has some indirect connection with Baal in Diabloii or Balder's Gate); Horus, the patron saint of the pharaoh's kingship, was the eagle-headed human body, and his wife was the Egyptian bull-headed goddess Hathor. Hathor was the most beautiful of all the goddesses of ancient Egypt, and her appearance was transformed into a cow. Also one of the oldest goddesses in Egypt, the Greek text mentions her as the goddess of the sky, and was once considered the god of death in Thebes. But she is generally considered to be the goddess of love, dance, wine and foreign countries.

(2) Goddess Hartol

The sacred cow Hator exists as a benevolent protector. Her image has been extensively carved into the stone walls of a large number of pharaonic tombs between 1350 BC and 1100 BC. She is depicted as a cow lying on a reed mat, or as a goddess with the head of a cow. Or a beautiful goddess. He usually wears a sun disc between the two horns of his head. Occasionally, a menat (a special pendant resembling a necklace, but not jewelry, but a sacrificial instrument that could also be used to transmit the power of the goddess to the pharaohs) was occasionally worn. Egypt

The sacred cow worship of the Egyptians was quite early, reaching its peak around the Middle Kingdom period (20401640BC), with Memphis as the center, connecting the sacred eagle worship of the Old Kingdom period and the holy sheep worship of the New Kingdom period (which happens to contrast with the oviparous mythology and bird totem culture in China, and Yin Shang is also the worship of the Xuanniao totem. Legend has it that their ancestor Deed was conceived by their mother Jane Di after swallowing swallow eggs).

Among the Egyptian gods, the head of the bull is represented by Apis, the god of fertility and fertility, in the form of a bull (xie note: this god is probably related to the god Baal. It's "that" the sun god Baal, and even has some indirect connection with Baal in "Diabloii" or "Balder's Gate"); Horus, the patron saint of the pharaoh's kingship, was the eagle-headed human body, and his wife was the Egyptian bull-headed goddess Hathor. Hathor is the most beautiful of all the goddesses of ancient Egypt, in the form of a cow, and is also one of the oldest goddesses in Egypt, the Greek text mentions her as the goddess of the sky, and was once considered to be the goddess of death in Thebes, but she is generally considered to be the god of love, dance, wine and foreign lands.

The sacred cow Hator exists as a benevolent protector. Her image was extensively carved into the stone walls of a large number of pharaonic tombs between 1350 and 1100 BC. She is depicted as a cow lying on a reed mat, either as a goddess with the head of a bull, or as a beautiful goddess, usually wearing a sun disc between the horns of his head. Occasionally, a menat (a special pendant resembling a necklace, but not jewelry, but a sacrificial instrument that could also be used to transmit the power of the goddess to the pharaohs) was occasionally worn.

2. Bull heads and Assyrians

The Mesopotamia Plain in the valley of the two rivers was one of the birthplaces of the four ancient civilizations, and the Sumer-American city-states, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire dominated the military and political arena in the region. One of the distinctive features of the metal craftsmanship here is that the shapes of the works are mostly images of winged lions, herding cattle, sheep, deer, etc. Lamassu was a human-headed, half-lion, half-bull monster in Assyrian/Babylonian mythology who defended the temples and palaces of the Assyrians. They have wings, they can fly, and they have a lot of power. Corresponding to this was the shedu, a human-headed cow with wings, who defended the temples and palaces of the Assyrians along with Ramasus. At the entrance to the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II, "Durshalukin", there is a huge bull-like figure with two wings. The object of their worship is not the bull-headed human body, but the bull-headed human body......

3. Iran

In the ancient capital of Iran, "Persepolis", you can still see statues of bull-headed people, and their myths and legends regard the cow as the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth.

In the Iranian Book of Genesis, the god Ahura. After creating the divine realm, Mazda began to create the material world, and he made the original man Kaiyomart and the original cow out of clay, and the essence of the original man and the original cow with the light and water of the sky, and placed it in the belly of the original man and the original cow, so that humans and animals could reproduce from it. Mithra, the sun god born by the goddess of the earth, was ordered by his mother to sacrifice a white bull on his mount, and after the death of the cow, the torso turned into the moon, the fur became the stars, the tail turned into grain, and the blood turned into grapes. The myth of Mithra slaughtering a cow to create all things was later spread throughout Asia Minor and the Mediterranean coast, as can be seen in the large number of carvings and drawings found in the temples of Mithra found in these areas. Mithras was originally the sun god of the Indo-Iranian people, Mithraism was widely spread in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Europe before the emergence of Christianity, and became the main religion of the Roman Empire. "Mr. Meier Angry Waves" Minotaur Beyond Crete (Page 8 of 40)

The ancient Iranian scripture "Avesta" does not mention the killing of cattle by Mithra, but there is a theory that the original cow died and was biochemical. In the "Book of Genesis" of "Avestus", the original cow was not killed by Mithra, but was killed together with the original man in the attack of the demon Ahriman, and the original cow was reborn into all things in the world after death, and after the original person Gai Yeo Mart was killed by the demon, he left the essence seed on his deathbed, and two plants grew in the scattering place, from which the first pair of men and women in the world were born. The twin siblings were tempted by evil spirits to steal the forbidden fruit and commit adultery with blood relatives, and their copulation gave birth to the whole world.

In another creation myth in Iran, the original man "used his head to make the heavens, feet to make the earth, tears to make water, hair to make plants, right hands to make cattle, and reason to make fire", juxtaposing the ox with heaven, earth, water, plants, and fire, which shows its status.

4. Japan

Held every July, the Gion Festival is an annual event of Yasakajinja Shrine, the origin of the Gion Festival is suppressed by the early Kyoto people in order to eradicate the plague, specially invited from India to suppress the bull-headed king, and the festival has been passed down to the present day into the three major festivals in Kyoto, and the Yasaka Shrine is dedicated to the bull-headed king, which is a very special shrine building in Japan, not only the peak of incense but also the most frequently visited temple by geishas.

In addition, there is another saying: the bull-headed king is Su Ming Zun, Su Hu Ming Zun is the bull head king, the "plague god" is not from India, but in Kyoto by the "Qin family" believed in the "bull head king". As the name suggests, the Qin family and their descendants came to Japan to escape the war during the Han Dynasty in China, claiming to be the descendants of Qin Shi Huang, who not only brought advanced production technology, but also brought their living customs and beliefs to foreign countries. In the ninth century, the power of the Qin clan was quite influential, and the god of plague, the Ox Head Heavenly King, was also welcomed to the Gion Society and became the worship god of the Gion Society. (To be continued......)

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