Jiuguangzi said: "In addition to the strong and strong Minotaur, his subordinates also look like wolves, but they are tall and mighty, each head is more than two meters tall, and even the highest one reaches three meters, all of which are his guards. In addition, there are eighteen of his brothers, the most powerful of them is the Ghost King, who looks like a human, but it is a real ghost, with a white-gray light spirit, and is three meters taller than a human. The other seventeen brothers were all of various races of the undead, and eleven were beasts. ”

Zhang Xuanchu said: "How come I hear the power of the Minotaur wherever I go, is the Minotaur so powerful? I have never seen the Minotaur and the Minotaur, and I really want to see what he looks like." ”

Here it is necessary to say a word about the role and myths of the Minotaurs in the world.

The Minotaur, also known as the Minotaur, is a symbol of chaos, evil, power, and killing, a classic monster in a fantasy world. 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 killed by the big hero K by only 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".

Three Emperors and Five Emperors

- Bull head in China, one of the three emperors and five emperors Shennong

The Book of Shang preaches that Fuxi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor were the three oldest emperors in China. In the Han Dynasty, there were still three emperors among the gods, and at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the three emperors were the emperors, the emperors of the earth, and the emperors of people. In the Taoist classics, the three emperors are divided into three groups: the first three emperors also have a human form, the middle three emperors have a human face snake body or a dragon body, and the latter three emperors have the head snake body of the queen emperor, that is, Fuxi, the head snake body of the emperor of the later earth, that is, Nuwa, and the head of the descendant emperor Niu head body, that is, Shennong. It is also said that Shennong is the head of the dragon, but the head of the dragon is similar to the head of the bull, and the current Shennong frame, as well as many legends and statues of Shennong.

Shennong's (Emperor Yan): "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and got the solution." This is the record of "Shennong's Materia Medica". The story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs is a legend that has been widely spread and has a great influence in ancient China. Shennong is the "Yan Emperor" of the three emperors and five emperors who are regarded as ancestors by the descendants of Yan and Huang of the Chinese nation, and is a representative figure of China's prehistoric ancestors. According to legend, Shennong is a bull-headed man, "Imperial Century" said: "Emperor Yan's body is a cow's head, longer than ginger water" "Emperor's Genealogy" says: "Shennong's cow's head", which may be the ancestors who have mastered farming technology at that time, for the image of Shennong as the "god of agriculture".

Chiyou: Chiyou is also a cow's head and hooves and has sharp horns. Ren Fang's "Strange Records" recorded before: "Zhuolu is in Jizhou, there is a god of Chiyou, a vulgar cloud human body, cow hooves, four eyes and six hands...... Qin and Han said that Chiyou's ears and temples are like a sword halberd, and his head has horns, fighting with Xuanyuan, and he uses horns to resist people, and people can't go to. Today, Jizhou has a music name 'Chiyou Opera', and its people are two, two, three, three, and wear horns on their heads to offset each other. The Han Dynasty made the horn to resist the play, and covered its legacy".

This all shows that the Chiyou people use cattle as their totem. After Chi You's death, he maintained great recognition from his hometown in Shandong to Yungui, Sichuan, and became the source of the martial spirit and unruly style of the Dongyi people. Until the Warring States Period, the gods of heaven in the hearts of the Qi people were the sky, the second was the earth, and the third was the soldier master Chiyou.

Shennong and Chiyou are still the two great ancestral gods of the Miao people, and have a very lofty position in the minds of the Miao people. Miao folk believe that Chiyou is the creator of the ancient Miao script (now lost), and in the "Chiyou Myth" that circulated in the area of Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Guizhou, it is emphasized that Chiyou began to use copper weapons earlier than the Yellow Emperor. In the language of the Miao people, the name "Chiyou" is still retained.

Qin Shi Huang and Liu Bang both sacrificed to the god of war. The image of Chi You in the legend of "copper head and iron forehead, flying sand and stone", as well as his five kinds of weapons such as Ge, Zhen, halberd, chieftain spear, and Yi spear when he fights, seem to indicate that they are a nation that began to smelt metal very early, and according to the Miao people's "Chiyou Myth", the Yellow Emperor incarnated as "Lei Lao Wu" pretended to call Chi You a brother and sister, learned medicine and bronze smelting technology, and deceived Chi You's copper plate axe by the way, which leveled the gap between each other's science and technology and defeated the Chi You tribe in one fell swoop.

Horns, copper heads, iron foreheads, four eyes, feed on sand, gravel and iron, and have superb weapons, which can call the wind and rain and stir up smoke and fog.

Among the Egyptian gods, the bull's head is represented by Apis, the god of fertility and fertility, in the form of a bull (note: this god is probably related to the god Baal - yes, it is "that" the sun god Baal, and even has some indirect connection with Baal in "The Gate of Bald"), the patron saint of the pharaoh's kingship, Horus in the form of a human body with the head of a hawk, and his wife is the Egyptian goddess of the bull head, Hator. 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.

Goddess Hartol

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, it was worn (a special pendant that resembled a necklace, but instead of jewelry, but a sacrificial instrument that could also be used to transmit the power of the goddess to the pharaoh).

Bull head and Assyrian

The Mesopotamian Plain in the valley of the Two Rivers was one of the cradles 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. Ramasus was a half-lion and half-bull monster in Assyrian/Babylonian mythology, guarding the temples and palaces of the Assyrians. They have wings, they can fly, and they have a lot of power. Corresponding to this was Shadhu, a winged monster with a human head and a cow, 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......

Cattle cattle in Greece

The Greek civilization inherited the cow worship of the Cretan civilization, and Zeus, the old man, once incarnated as a cow and took the girl to the New World on the back of the ox - that is, the origin of Europa. There are too many stories about cattle in Greek mythology, and the legend of Crete belongs to the pre-Greek mythology, but since we are talking about the topic of "the head of the bull outside Crete" this time, then these ubiquitous road goods will not be posted to cheat the manuscript fee. In general legends, King Minos is rarely mentioned as the son of Zeus and Europa during his lifetime, and after his death he became one of the "Three Kings of Hades", and his rule was known for its strict rule of law. It is also worth mentioning that the Minoan civilization entered the Bronze Age in 2500 BC, while Athens was around 1200 BC, so the contrast between the two was like that of a city man and a dirt bun.

Cattle and European barbarians

The iconic image of the Vikings in the legend is not a horn helmet other than a beard, long hair and shawl, an ironclad skirt, and a galleon? It also symbolizes their gloomy, struggling, brave, and tenacious national spirit (well, in fact, ordinary Viking warriors don't wear the exaggerated horn helmets, only a few respected military leaders and priests occasionally do it). In the Norse creation mythology, the cow Odombra and the giant of origin Ymir were the first two beings, and the huge cow lived by licking snow and ice and some salt frost on the ice, and the huge Ymir fed on the milk of Odumbra. The cow licked out of the salt frost the ancestor of the gods, Brie, so for the Norsemen, the cow was the ancestor of all things, and it was only natural that the cow should be their own symbol.

In Chinese folklore, the bull-headed horse face is a famous soul messenger in Hades. In the ghost city of Xudu, as well as in the city god temples in various places, there are images of bull heads and horse faces. The bull's head comes from Buddhism. The bull's head is also called Apang, its shape is the bull's head human body, holding a steel fork, and the power can row the mountain.

- Niu Niu in Iran... Incarnate Heaven and Earth

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 Mazda began to create the material world after creating the divine realm, and he used the clay to create the original man Kaiyomart and the original cow, and used the light and water of the sky to create the essence of the original man and the original cow, and placed it in the belly of the original human and the original cow, in order to reproduce human beings and animals. Mithra, the sun god born from the goddess of the earth, was sacrificed by his mother to a white bull, and after the death of the ox, the torso became 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, but 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 (see below).