(March 4, 2020 at 8:06 am)brewer Wrote:(March 4, 2020 at 4:41 am)WinterHold Wrote: The brazen bull is an ancient torture method that includes the "roasting of the victim" to death inside a "bronze" bull. The bull made a sound when the victims start to scream from the pain.
It was claimed to be invented by the ancient Greeks by Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
But the sound produced by the bull does open a new theory to me when looking at this ancient passage from the Quran:
The bible has a similar story; but it never mentions the "lowing sound". The brazen bull is unique for its sound; just like the mentioned calf is unique for its sound.
Burnt offerings were claimed by the bible to be "offered" for the calf. So were they put inside it; and it is the origin of the brazen bull ? but instead of "offerings" people were put inside later by the Greeks ?
FTFY
Moobys.....
Now I'm hungry again.
Signed
Kevin Smith