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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...
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    Cybele, perhaps anticipating by several centuries the pit used in her taurobolium and criobolium sacrifices during the Roman imperial era. Over time, her...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Taurobolium ex voto altar dedicated to the Mother of the Gods on behalf of the emperor's wellbeing, set up by a priest in Roman Gaul (CIL 12.1569...
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    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...
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  • problematic, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, symbolist, symbolize, symbology, taurobolium, thromboembolism bapt- (ΒΑΦ) dip Greek βάπτειν (báptein), βάμμα (bámma)...
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  • Religion (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 264, 266. For the Taurobolium, see Duthoy, Robert, The Taurobolium: Its Evolution and Terminology, Volume 10, Brill, 1969...
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    Google Books.[full citation needed] Malloch, D.K. (2006). Christ and the Taurobolium - Lord Mithras in the Genesis of Christianity. Scotland: Lochan. ISBN 9780954078614...
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    1714; reprinted in Burmann’s Thesaurus rerum italicarum (vol. VIII); “Taurobolium antiquum Lugduni anno 1704 repertum, cum explicatione,” Lyon, 1704, reprinted...
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  • long festival commemorating Cybele's lamentation (fasting, castigation, taurobolium, festoonment, washing) of the death and rejoicing of at the resurrection...
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  • tarsometatarsus, tarsus taur- bull Greek ταῦρος (taûros) Minotaur, taurobolium, taurocholic, tauromachy taur- bull Latin taurus Taurus tec- (ΤΑΚ) melt...
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    Quindecimviri sacris faciundis Epulones Animal sacrifice Lustratio October Horse Taurobolium Roman funerary practices Roman funerary art Roman sarcophagi Latin Romance...
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  • 3:37 10. "Cristobal Risquez" 2:28 11. "Hatchet Wound" 3:10 12. "Mala" 1:08 13. "Won't You Come Home" 3:31 14. "Taurobolium" 3:16 Total length: 40:52...
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    cults – hence its apparent adoption of a Persian deity-name, of the taurobolium ritual from the cult of Cybele, and of the Phrygian cap. Based on secret...
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  • "Martial's Epigrams." In: Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. XVIII, 1919. "Taurobolium.” In: Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. XII, 1921. Author:Grant...
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    there are five human figures and a bull which is to be prepared for a taurobolium (ritual sacrifice). The second side shows the flight of Aeneas. In his...
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  • tarsometatarsus, tarsus taur- bull Greek ταῦρος (taûros) Minotaur, taurobolium, taurocholic, tauromachy taur- bull Latin taurus Taurus tec- (ΤΑΚ) melt...
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  • problematic, symbol, symbolic, symbolism, symbolist, symbolize, symbology, taurobolium, thromboembolism bapt- (ΒΑΦ) dip Greek βάπτειν (báptein), βάμμα (bámma)...
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    of the church, the first two are dedicated to Juno and the third is a taurobolium having been used for the worship of Mithras. Jean-Paul Clébert suggests...
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  • necessary for dismembering the horse. A spear was used against the bull in a taurobolium, perhaps as a remnant of the ritual's origin as a hunt, but otherwise...
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  • Venustus consul in 240 and the Lucius Ragonius Venustus who performed a taurobolium in 390; the second, Venustus, might have been Nicomachus' father. CIL...
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    steles and a collection of Roman inscriptions, which include an inscribed taurobolium altar. There is a cylindrical milestone from the Aurelian Way. In the...
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    Fourvière hill in Lyon, France. It dates to the year AD 160 and refers to a taurobolium carried out in Lugdunum to Cybele for the restoration of the emperor...
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  • to inscriptions found at Ostia. Lucius Ragonius Venustus, performed a taurobolium, the sacrifice of a bull in honour of the Magna Mater, in AD 390. List...
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  • Another likely descendant is Lucius Ragonius Venustus who performed a taurobolium in 390. Ragonia gens X. Loriot, "Les consuls ordinaires de l'année 240...
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