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intercourse ctwcen the Dilmunian and a ull, An actual sexual act done from ehind the
ull, and the act is sccn performed while he is holding the rear of the 7‫ﺇﺇ'ﻥ‬

The nusual? act how and why

To ry to understand why Dilmunians performed such an 'unusual' act, we have to
reach-out and go through the lndus Valley and Sumerian-Mesopotamian Mythology, mainly
the part conccrning the Goddess of Sex and Immortality and the place of the Bull in the
myths.

ln the case of lndus Valley's Myth, ٠٠٠ among the numcrous easts reprcesented on the

Indus Valley Seals, the ull preponderatcs y far, frcqucntly standing cfore a ccnsor, which

suggests, that, like the Apis Bull of Pych, it was regarded as divine.»١٥ ٨‫ﺯ‬١٩ the Rig veda (C.

1, 5-1, B.C. the goddess Adite, mother of the gods, was a cow. In the irtes a cow wsa

ceremonially addresscd y her namc, She was the ''supporter of creatures widely

cxpanded,'' mother of the sun-god Mitra and of the land of truth and niversal order,

Varuna, mother, also, of lndra, king of the gods, who is addressed constantly as a u‫ﺇ‬١.PI9

... hTe earlier Brone age rituals of the ull, which had served in cults primarily of vegetal

fetrility (parts crudely sexual ٤«٤ha٤tthe ulls were the suject of a cult seems plain

enough, and this fomr of worship was to have a significant place also in the lndus Civilisation

and to persist through all the vicisitudes of lndus history?'. One Indus Valley Archaeologist

put it simply that 'Indus Valley Civilisation did include the ull as one memer of the family,

with all the aspect and positions it hold2‫ﻱ‬

Sumerian-Mesopotamian Mythology reaction to the goddess of sex and Immotrlaity and

her relation, if any, to the ull, had some similarity to the Indus Valley's example, only the

relation of the goddess Inanna to the ull was the similarity etween the two myths. The

earliset temple compounds of the Near East, indeed, the earliest temple compounds in the

histoyr of the world reinforce the evidence for the ull-dog, and goddess-cow sa leading

fertility symols of the period. Roughly dated C.4,-3,5 B.C., such primayr temple

compounds have een excavated in the Mesopotamian south. 2»‫ﺓ‬3

Egyptians also had a similar myth, and worship, which was very much the same in
mythological aspect and respect to the Sumerian's myth of Inanna and her husand sun-god,
tu. hTere was another goddess for the sky, one of them Hatmoor'' with a cow's head,
and a woman's mras and legs, or with four legs of cow, which symoilsed the four supporters
or holdesr of the sky .٠٠ and her husand hte sun-god ..٢،2٩

To symolise the relation that existed etween the goddess of vLe,‫ ﻤ‬Sex, and

17 Iilustration, drawing of sexual act.
18 hTe Masks of Gods, Page 169,

19 iid, Page 63.
2 - iid, Page 191.
21 hT٥ first Great Civilisation, Page 55.
22 D Rafque Moghul.
23 hTe Masks of God, Page 37.
24 Page 12.

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