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- In the Roman Empire of the second to fourth centuries, taurobolium referred to practices involving the sacrifice of a bull, which after mid-second century...
- Cybele, perhaps anti****ting by several centuries the pit used in her taurobolium and criobolium sacrifices during the Roman imperial era. Over time, her...
- archigallus came the Phrygianum sanctuary as well as the rite of the taurobolium as it pertains to the Magna Mater, two aspects of the Magna Mater's cultus...
- special ceremony instituted after the rise, and on the analogy of the taurobolium, which was performed in honor of the Great Mother, for the purpose of...
- practices of the Roman Empire of the 2nd to 4th centuries included the taurobolium, in which a bull was sacrificed for the well-being of the people and...
- distinct from the sacrifice of a bull in ancient Rome called a taurobolium; the taurobolium was mainly part of the unrelated cult of Cybele. Despite the...
- of a taurobolium (a form of bull sacrifice), performed at her shrine in Pozzuoli on 5 October 134. This form of the goddess, and the taurobolium, are...
- problematic, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, symbolist, symbolize, symbology, taurobolium, thromboembolism bapt- (ΒΑΦ) dip Gr**** βάπτειν (báptein), βάμμα (bámma)...
- Great Mother, which from his reign onwards included a bull sacrifice, a taurobolium, formerly only a private ritual, now being also performed for the sake...
- tarsometatarsus, tarsus taur- bull Gr**** ταῦρος (taûros) Minotaur, taurobolium, taurocholic, tauromachy taur- bull Latin taurus Taurus tec- (ΤΑΚ) melt...