Mithras, the Bull Slayer
- Emmanuel Isaiah Smith

- Aug 4, 2020
- 1 min read
The Bull Slayer, Hall of the Animals, Vatican.
Photograph of a statue depicting Mithras kneeling over a bull plunging a dagger into the bull’s neck, a dog leaping up at the wound and a snake sliding up the bull’s body to the wound.
Erected in the 18th century.





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