The gate of the year

Earthenware statuette in the shape of a bull belonging to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, which flourished between 5500 and 2750 B.C. in the region of the Dnestr-Dnepr river, spreading into the actual territories of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. The frequency with which bull images are found in this period has been related by some scholars to the importance of the constellation Taurus, which, between 4000 and 1700 B.C., marked the spring equinox. Later on, as a consequence of the phenomenon called “precession of the equinoxes”, this same function has been absolved by the Ram (Aries) sign. The artifact is exhibited in the National Museum of History of Moldova (Muzeul National de Istorie a Moldovei), Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

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Earthenware statuette in the shape of a bull belonging to the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, which flourished between 5500 and 2750 B.C. in the region of the Dnestr-Dnepr river, spreading into the actual territories of Romania, Moldova and Ukraine. The frequency with which bull images are found in this period has been related by some scholars to the importance of the constellation Taurus, which, between 4000 and 1700 B.C., marked the spring equinox. Later on, as a consequence of the phenomenon called “precession of the equinoxes”, this same function has been absolved by the Ram (Aries) sign. The artifact is exhibited in the National Museum of History of Moldova (Muzeul National de Istorie a Moldovei), Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. [Image: http://neokoolt.blogspot.it/2012/10/cucuteni-trypillia.html]