the bull-leapers of Knossos — what were they actually doing?

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The Minoan frescoes show young acrobats vaulting over the horns of a charging bull, and every textbook calls it sport. We are not so sure. In a civilization organized around the bull, leaping the horns reads less like a game and more like a rite of ascent — a body passing through the god and coming out the other side. The palace at Knossos was, itself, a labyrinth with a bull at the center.

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@history_buff_447 weeks ago

the production value on this channel about ancient cows is genuinely unreasonable

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@re_enchanter5 weeks ago

"a body passing through the god and coming out the other side" is just the ritual with extra steps

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