Tauroboliumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tauroboly

語源

Borrowed from Latin taurobolium, from Ancient Greek ταυροβόλιον (taurobólion).

名詞

taurobolium (plural taurobolia)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) The ritual slaughter of a bull.
   • 1927, George La Piana, Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire, Harvard University Press, page 300:

     The cult of the Magna Mater, borrowing the civic spirit proper to Roman religion, made of the official taurobolium a manifestation of loyalty to the institutions of the Roman Empire.

   • 1968, Phoenix, Volume 22, Classical Association of Canada, University of Toronto Press, page 236,

     It is safe to conclude that the taurobolium at this stage in its development was a substitution rite at least in its original and most basic purpose, although it may soon have become an initiatory rite for women.

   • 1990, Britt-Mari Näsström, O Mother of the Gods and Men, Plus Ultra, page 42,

     In addition to the gloomy figure of Attis, another spectacular element was connected to the cult of Magna Mater, the rite of the Taurobolium and the Criobolium.

使用する際の注意点

• The rite was practised from the 2nd to the 4th centuries CE. From the mid-2nd century, it became associated almost exclusively with Roman worship of Cybele, an Anatolian mother goddess whom the Romans called Magna Mater ("Great Mother" [of the Gods]).
• Not to be confused with tauroctony, a modern term for ancient cult reliefs which depict Mithras killing a bull.

派生語

• taurobolic

関連する語

• criobolium (ritual slaughter of a ram)

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