Saturday 27 June 2020

Three bulls and grain


This is an Indus valley seal, depicting three bulls, sun and grain. In the Indus Valley, wheat and barley were and still are sown in November or December and harvested in April or May, during Taurus, which marks the beginning of summer, the hot part of the year dominated by sun...

The reason why Taurus is where it is on the zodiac circle is because it marks the beginning of the calving season of the wild Eurasian cattle... 

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