Saturday, 3 October 2026

A Theory of the Zoroastrian Origin of the Mithraic Tauroctony

Roman marble relief of Mithras slaying the bull, with a snake, a dog and a scorpion, small scenes along the edges and an inscription below.

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

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