Crossword-Solution: TAURIFORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tauriform | a. | Having the form of a bull. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TAURIFORM”
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| in the form of a bull | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
WOALLP
Hint 3 another clue
BATTER ___
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Sentences with TAURIFORM (2)
Diana of Ephesus, the Moon wore the image of a crab on her bosom, because in that sign was the Moon's domicile; and lions bore up the throne of Horus, the Egyptian Apollo, the Sun personified, for a like reason: while the Egyptians consecrated the tauriform scarabæsus to the Moon, because she had her place of exaltation in Taurus; and for the same reason Mercury is said to have presented Isis with a helmet like a bull's head.
Thus, the worship of Dionysus, introduced into Greece by the Phoenicians as that of the tauriform sun-god whom his worshippers adored with loud cries (whence _Bacchus_ or _Iacchus_), and the god of generation (whence his _phallic_ emblem) and production, was brought into connexion with the Dorian religion of the sun-god Apollo.