<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 2/26/02 10:14:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, cbt4489@glaxowellcome.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">For example, the Tauraboleum, where initiates of a mystery
<BR>cult stood under an iron grate while a bull was slaughtered, may have
<BR>influenced Christian rhetoric about being washed in the blood of the Lamb.
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<BR>I think there is enough evidence for the symbology of the sacrificial lamb in ancient Judea (which, of course, is MUCH more likely to be related to Christianity). Just see the Old Testamant. I wouldn't think that anyone would feel the need to try and find an explanation for it in an obscure mystery cult that sacrificed bulls.
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<BR>Tighearn Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn, CP, OPE
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