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the Sabines or hints at it dies at that moment, fhe bov gets
sealed on his wav out of the temple between his index
finger and thumb with a seal that has a figure of a monkey
and hoopoe on it.
They also say that the best sacrifice for Saturn is the
bull because it is from the good creatures. Thev glorify the
crown on his head of horns and the)' say that the bulls an 2
the best cattle and the best sacrifices. They sacrifice the
bulls especially after feeding it grass that virgins collect a&
sunrise and they come back from different places to
complete the secret that they have been told. The bull has
to be without white hairs at all on his body and they put aj
golden chain on his eyes that wraps around his horns.
They say that this is also done according to Hermes'
words. When they decide to sacrifice the bull they say that
the buii does not resist and there is no need to tie him up-
Then thev start in front of hint to pray with incense and the j
prayer is a Greek prayer. Then they approach the place
sacrifice so he puts his horn on the side of a round small
hole and the slaughterer cuts off the head in one motion he J
does not go over the same spot with the knife again. Then (
they put the head up high and thev trv to translate the
movements of the tongue, ears, lips and eyes then they
look at the blood that is in the hole, how yellow it is and j
foamy and what starts to form of buttery foamy shapes, sftl
they can tell from that what goes on in their country
because the country for them is Saturn and what Saturn
started of rotation gets back to it and this saenfj
happens when the Sun moves into Taurus. This bull
been mentioned in the Torah in the story of the buU
ran away from being sacrificed from Beni Anoon s farm.
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