“The Horns of the Altar” and bulls?

[GrandizerII]

Same link, just a bit further down.


Thing is, there isn't much that the OT has to say about canaanites that holds water.  The people the ot is purportedly telling us about were canaanites.  They just didn't enjoy that fact and, clearly, sought to change that situation.

True, which is ironic considering the OT actually arguably preserves the Canaanite origins by having Abraham settle there.

Regarding the horns and what you said earlier about horns simply being important to the religious culture of the time… couldn’t that in and of itself be a connection right there? Or is it assuming too much on specifics we don’t have?

If the connection you're referring to is what you pondered about in the OP, then yes, you might be assuming too much on specifics we don't have.

Of course horns had symbolic meaning in the Old Testament. The horns on the altars dedicated to Yahweh in the Bible were not there for no reason. What was the meaning exactly, I personally have no clue. Christians have their own interpretations to do with Christ, but they are most likely wrong there.

But I do know when I last read the Old Testament, there was a lot of mentions of rams and goats in addition to bulls.