(March 12, 2022 at 2:58 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(March 12, 2022 at 2:30 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Nope, she's not making the connection as specified in the OP, regardless of the credibility of what she's saying here.
The OP is referring to the horns on the altar as specified in Exodus and elsewhere in the Bible, and then they're pondering the connection from that to bulls of ANE religions. Not horns in general, but the horns that were on those altars.
She did establish the connection between the bull and the El (Yahweh), so why would it then be unexplained that they use bull's horns to represent him on the altar devoted to him (bull god)?
Establish is too strong a word here, but again put that aside. Who said the horns on the altars described in Exodus and elsewhere were bull horns? Why not ram horns instead? Or goat horns?
