Category:Tauroctony

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<nowiki>Tauroctonia; 雄牛を屠る; tauroctonie; Tauroctonía; Тавроктония; Taŭroktonio; тавроктония; 토럭터니; Tauroktonie; Tauroctonia; Tauroctony; توراکتونی; 屠牛像; বৃষবধ (মিথ্রীয়ধর্ম); modern name given to imagery depicting the god Mithras killing a bull, typically featured on the cult reliefs central to Roman Mithraic Mysteries; Ikonographischer Begriff; scène représentant Mithra tuant le taureau; Tauroctonia; Stiertötung; 황소를 죽이는 미트라</nowiki>
Tauroctony 
modern name given to imagery depicting the god Mithras killing a bull, typically featured on the cult reliefs central to Roman Mithraic Mysteries
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A tauroctony refers to the very standardized (and easily recognizable) bull-killing scene of the Roman Mithraic Mysteries. Not to be confused with a 'taurobolium', which was a type of Roman sacrifice of a bull to Artemis or Magna Mater. Unlike a 'taurobolium' (which involves real animal sacrifice), a 'tauroctony' was probably just a symbolic representation of an astrological/eschatological/cosmological event in the cult's myth (the "bull" probably represents the constellation Taurus).

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