Category:Taurobolium

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English: A taurobolium is a type of Roman sacrifice of a bull to Artemis or Magna Mater. Not to be confused with a 'tauroctony', which is also superficially a sacrifice of a bull, but refers to the very standardized (and easily recognizable) bull-killing scene of the Mithraic Mysteries. A 'taurobolium' involved a real animal sacrifice, while a 'tauroctony' is merely a symbolic representation of an astrological/eschatological/cosmological event in the cult's myth.
<nowiki>Taurobolio; Taurobole; Тавроболий; Taurobolium; تاروبولیوم; 牛祭; Tauroboli; טאורבוליום; Taurobolium; Тавроболій; Taurobolium; ടോറോബൊലിയം; Taurobolium; Taurobolium; 타우로볼리움; Taurobolium; Taŭrobolio; Ταυροβόλιο; Тавроболия; ritual que implicava ser regat amb la sang d'un bou; Rituelle Handlung; practice of a ritual sacrifice of a bull; ritual en el que se sacrifica un toro en honor a Cibeles; stierenoffer; Taurobolium; Taurobolium</nowiki>
Taurobolium 
practice of a ritual sacrifice of a bull
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