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Kusarikku ("Bull-Man") [a] was an ancient Mesopotamian mythological demon shown in artistic representation from the earliest (late Uruk period) times with the arms, torso and head of a human and the ears, horns and hindquarters of a bull. [1]
Most of the time, a bull has a hump on his shoulders. [ 6 ] In horned cattle, the horns of bulls tend to be thicker and somewhat shorter than those of cows, [ 7 ] and in many breeds, they curve outwards in a flat arc rather than upwards in a lyre shape.
Bat – An Egyptian goddess with the horns and ears of a cow. Cernunnos – An ancient Gaulish/Celtic God with the antlers of a deer. Fairy – A humanoid with insect-like wings. Hathor – An Egyptian goddess with cow horns. Horned God – A god with horns. Jackalope – A jackrabbit with the horns of a whitetail deer.
One may throw sand in the bull's eyes. It's an old rule of logic that the competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth of what he says, and so talk of incompetence (is) pure sand. Socrates , that ancient enemy of rhetorical argument , would have sent Phædrus flying for this one, saying, "Yes, I accept your premise that I'm incompetent ...
There have been suggestions that he may be the "bull-man" shown in Mesopotamian art, having the head, arms, and body of a man, and the horns, ears, tail and legs of a bull. [7] Thereafter a series of interactions with humans and human ways bring him closer to civilization, culminating in a wrestling match with Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
In Orphism, Zagreus, an equivalent of Dionysus, was described as "bull-faced"; possibly influencing Dionysus' epithet Tauros ("bull") and depictions of him with horns, as attested by Plutarch. In Euripides ' The Bacchae , there is a scene were King Pentheus sees a horned Dionysus, resulting in him losing his sanity.
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Islero was a Miura bull famed for killing the celebrated bullfighter Manolete on August 28, 1947. Bulls from the Miura ranch, located near Seville , Spain, are known for being large and ferocious. Islero had poor eyesight and tended to chop with his right horn. [ 1 ]