{"id":24,"date":"2013-01-10T23:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/?p=24"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T13:59:50","slug":"the-bulls-tail-with-an-ear-or-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/the-bulls-tail-with-an-ear-or-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mithraic backgrounds and their Iranian roots: What\u2019s the symbolism of the bull\u2019s raised tail with the three ears of grain? By Manuchehr Jamali and Gita Yegane Arani-May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/small_steer_for_article.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-116 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/small_steer_for_article-300x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/small_steer_for_article-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/small_steer_for_article-768x616.png 768w, https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/small_steer_for_article.png 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"hglt2f\"><strong>Mithraic backgrounds and their Iranian roots: What\u2019s the symbolism of the bull\u2019s raised tail with the three ears of grain?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"sig\">Manuchehr Jamali and Gita Yegane Arani-May<\/div>\n<p>Why do ears of grain grow out of the raised bull\u2019s tail?<\/p>\n<p>No bull raises his tail straight up, nor does one or three ears of grain grow at the tip of any bull\u2019s tail. What type of worldview do we see in this symbolism that merges animal with plant life? The image of the \u201cear of grain\u201d and the early philosophical conceptions tied to this symbol, held a central meaning in the early Iranian civilisation and their religious ideas. A basic concept they held was represented in their equation of growth (as pertaining to plants) and birth (in animal life). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farangis.de\/mithras\/taunus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/S_Mithraicbackgrounds_FIN_1.pdf\">\u00bb read the full article as a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mithraic backgrounds and their Iranian roots: What\u2019s the symbolism of the bull\u2019s raised tail with the three ears of grain? Manuchehr Jamali and Gita Yegane Arani-May Why do ears of&#8230; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/the-bulls-tail-with-an-ear-or-grain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamali.info\/ikp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}