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# A Theory of the Zoroastrian Origin of the Mithraic Tauroctony
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/est-versiia-chto-mitrianskaia-tavroktoniia-zaimstvovana-iz-eskhatologicheskogo-ubiistva-byka-v-zoroastrizme/
- Published: 2017-07-11T09:12:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:55:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Archaeology, Faith, The East, Art

There is a theory that the Mithraic tauroctony was borrowed from the eschatological slaying of the bull in Zoroastrianism. In the bas-relief, a scorpion bites off the slain bull's penis