These animals' blood was dumped on late Roman priests of Cybele or Magna Mater in abaptism-like ritual. One of these creatures with distinctive white spots on its forehead and forelegwas slain by Cambyses II when he invaded Egypt; that one, later syncretized with Osiris, was calledApis and was sacrosanct in Memphis. In the Roman Empire, statues of this creature with a knife heldto its neck were made by the cult of (*) Mithras, a solar deity who slew this animal. A white one namedNandi is the mount of Shiva; in Greek myth, a Cretan and Marathonian one fought Theseus and
These animals' blood was dumped on late Roman priests of Cybele or Magna Mater in abaptism-like ritual. One of these creatures with distinctive white spots on its forehead and forelegwas slain by Cambyses II when he invaded Egypt; that one, later syncretized with Osiris, was calledApis and was sacrosanct in Memphis. In the Roman Empire, statues of this creature with a knife heldto its neck were made by the cult of (*) Mithras, a solar deity who slew this animal. A white one namedNandi is the mount of Shiva; in Greek myth, a Cretan and Marathonian one fought Theseus and Heracles.For 10 points, name these male animals whose head appeared on the Minotaur.
These animals' blood was dumped on late Roman priests of Cybele or Magna Mater in abaptism-like ritual.
bulls [or cattle; do not accept "cows"]