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After the last discussion about Atlantis, I thought out a new topic to unite old bronze age cultures to a Spanish forum, so that at least non-Spanish people like me also have something to say on this forum.
So, I thought, let’s talk about bulls.
As you may know, the cosmic belt is very interesting for more reasons than just to see how much fortune you will gain and how much loved ones you will meet. I will spare you the mathematical talk around it, but basically every year the sun rises at a certain point of the year at the same point of the sky. At the summer equinox, a nice point to mesure, the sun rises in the symbol of the Fishes. Soon, however, in a few years, it will be the time of Aquarius. All stupid songs and cults have been formed around it, but it’s nothing really special.
The time it takes from the one sign from the other is about 2100 years. So, therefore, the last 2500 years we have been in the age of Pisces. People have ideas that that is the reason why Jesus is portrayed as a fish.
Now the point of my story is, that before the Pisces was the age of the Bull. Now we get to the point about which I want to talk. Maybe this astrological stuff is not really so very convincing, even though in ancient cultures it was very much so, especially in Egypt.
Now, let’s have a look of what the Bull has signified for mankind in the years of the Bull. Well, enormous, actually, much more so that the Fish has in the more recent one. All over the Mediterrenean the Bull was worshipped as being a holy figure or sometimes even thè most holy figure.
In Egypt the Apis was an example of this, but not so very important. However in the Middle East it had much more significance. Still, the one thing we think about if we think about bulls in this period is nowhere else than, yes, Crete. The beautiful pictures of people dancing on the horns of the bull, the presence of Bull’s horns all over the place, the beautiful bull with the golden horns, etc.
It is believed that –the Olympian gods were not yet established then- the Bull-God, later identified as Poseidon, was the most powerful god, who had power over the shaking of the earth (another interesting association given that other discussion).
So, therefore, what do you think? Does Spanish Bulldancing directly involve from Crete, or perhaps from the general god-making of the bull in the mediterranean in archaic times, or is it purely a coincedental, purely Spanish ritual.
And if the last, how could it have evolved?
So, I thought, let’s talk about bulls.
As you may know, the cosmic belt is very interesting for more reasons than just to see how much fortune you will gain and how much loved ones you will meet. I will spare you the mathematical talk around it, but basically every year the sun rises at a certain point of the year at the same point of the sky. At the summer equinox, a nice point to mesure, the sun rises in the symbol of the Fishes. Soon, however, in a few years, it will be the time of Aquarius. All stupid songs and cults have been formed around it, but it’s nothing really special.
The time it takes from the one sign from the other is about 2100 years. So, therefore, the last 2500 years we have been in the age of Pisces. People have ideas that that is the reason why Jesus is portrayed as a fish.
Now the point of my story is, that before the Pisces was the age of the Bull. Now we get to the point about which I want to talk. Maybe this astrological stuff is not really so very convincing, even though in ancient cultures it was very much so, especially in Egypt.
Now, let’s have a look of what the Bull has signified for mankind in the years of the Bull. Well, enormous, actually, much more so that the Fish has in the more recent one. All over the Mediterrenean the Bull was worshipped as being a holy figure or sometimes even thè most holy figure.
In Egypt the Apis was an example of this, but not so very important. However in the Middle East it had much more significance. Still, the one thing we think about if we think about bulls in this period is nowhere else than, yes, Crete. The beautiful pictures of people dancing on the horns of the bull, the presence of Bull’s horns all over the place, the beautiful bull with the golden horns, etc.
It is believed that –the Olympian gods were not yet established then- the Bull-God, later identified as Poseidon, was the most powerful god, who had power over the shaking of the earth (another interesting association given that other discussion).
So, therefore, what do you think? Does Spanish Bulldancing directly involve from Crete, or perhaps from the general god-making of the bull in the mediterranean in archaic times, or is it purely a coincedental, purely Spanish ritual.
And if the last, how could it have evolved?
The Minoans never activly spread their culture. Also, their concept was not to fight the bull, but to leap over it by grasping it's horns as it charged, and flipping over it's body, landing on their feet and sprinting away. But of course, this could be a lot of Bull! 
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