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An illustration from a 5th century BCE Greek red-figure pottery vase showing the myth of Europa and Zeus disguised as a bull. (Tarquinia Archaeological Museum, Italy)

Metope from the west side of the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. Here Hercules tames the Cretan Bull. (470-460 BCE) Olympia Archaeological Museum.

Lakota Sioux holy man and leader, Sitting Bull, in 1885. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

Statue of tauroctony depicting Mithras about to kill the bull, found in situ resting on a masonry base in the Mithraneum of the Baths of Mithras, 1st century CE, Ostia Antica (Italy).

A c. 1885 painting by Karl Aspelin showing Martin Luther (l. 1483-1546) burning the papal bull Exsurge Domine in December 1520.

A limestone Apis bull statue from the Serapeum at Saqqara, Egypt. 30th Dynasty. Height: 1.26 m. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

The Apis bull protected the dead on their way to the underworld. This explains its use as a design on coffin ends. Coffin footboard from Egypt, 8th to 4th century BCE. (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK)

Life-size basalt statue of the Apis Bull dedicated by Hadrian to Serapis in Alexandria (Egypt), Osiris, Sunken Mysteries of Egypt exhibition, Paris (2015)

Lakota Sioux leader and holy man Sitting Bull in 1883. Original photograph by D. F. Barry.

Proto-Elamite silver sculpture of a kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel, c. 3100-2900 BCE, southwestern Iran.