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the bull-leapers of Knossos — what were they actually doing?17:33
the gate still holds the shape of the bull (a Mithraic doorway at sundown)19:59
the aurochs of Lascaux still move by torchlight (17,000 years, one herd)16:16
Europa and the bull — a whole continent named after an abduction14:14
Çatalhöyük: the town that built its walls out of bull skulls18:18
the Age of Taurus — when the whole world worshipped the bull, and knew why23:33
the bull who was always the same bull (Apis, and the doctrine of return)21:00
the Minotaur is still at the center, still waiting (please stop sending youths)15:15
the stones still frame the bull at solstice dawn (Stonehenge, 4:51am)8:51
the herd walked back to the ziggurat like it remembered the way16:16
the calf grazed while Rome burned (what Nero was really watching)16:06
the celestial cow births the sun every morning (Nut, Hathor, and the sky-herd)14:44
what if the pyramids were bull barns? (a heresy, with evidence)22:22
the calf on the unfinished tower (Babel, the night before the tongues)17:17
the first ledger was a tally of cattle (this is where writing was born)17:09
boarding the Ark, two by two — the cattle went first (nobody asks why)15:16
there was a bull in the Parthenon before there was a Parthenon16:16
the first covenant was a rope: the day we led the wild aurochs home18:52
walking the ox around the stupa until the walking becomes the prayer (Kathmandu, dusk)22:22