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Vol. II · Polytheism
Mithra
Persian god of covenants and light
slaying the sacred bull in the tauroctony scene, light streaming from the wound and stars wheeling around him
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.