Sacrificial bull
animal · 4 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the bull · a bull · beasts of mighty strength · bull · great bulls · the fat bodies of bulls
spoken of as
2 expressionsSacrificial Bulls2 mentions
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek) · On Providence (Latin)
bringing as many great bulls as possible to be slaughtered;
The Sacrificial Bull“cosmic bull”1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
This bull of a thousand, rich in milk, bearing all forms upon his flanks, teaching welfare to the giver and the sacrificer — he, son of Bṛhaspati, has stretched the thread of the dawn-cows.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A cosmic sacrificial bull, identified with Indra, Soma and the sacrifice itself, whose body is ritually divided among the gods and whose gift to a Brāhmaṇa is praised as bringing prosperity.
This bull of a thousand, rich in milk, bearing all forms upon his flanks, teaching welfare to the giver and the sacrificer — he, son of Bṛhaspati, has stretched the thread of the dawn-cows.
He who moves among the gods like Indra, lowing loudly among the kine — let Brahmā praise with a blessing the limbs of that bull.
A thousand at a single bestowal does he give who sacrifices a bull to a brahmin.
Helen
A bull given by Theoklymenos as a funeral blood-offering, which Menelaos sacrifices aboard ship as the ambush against the crew begins.
and, standing over the bull to slay it, with no mention of any dead man, he cut its throat and prayed:
but the bull did not want to go forward along the plank, but kept bellowing loudly, rolling his eyes around;
Among barbarians it is customary to sacrifice a horse or a bull.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Bulls slaughtered as part of the pagan festival celebrating Josaphat's birth.
bringing as many great bulls as possible to be slaughtered;
On Providence
Sacrificial bulls whose great bulk collapses at a small wound to the neck, cited as an image teaching how easily life can be ended.
The fat bodies of bulls fall at a tiny wound, and a stroke of the human hand fells beasts of mighty strength;