COLOSSAL BULLS. 
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symbol of Power, that kept the gate of the great king. Through¬ 
out all pagan mythology, we find the bull set down as the emblem 
of power, and the lion, of royalty. The lion and the bull, either 
singly, or in forms compounded of both animals, are found some 
way connected with almost all the ancient structures in Persia ; 
and the frequent recurrence of this kind of hieroglyphical 
inscription on the architraves of palaces, or the sides of gates, 
or the roofs of temples, may easily be read as declarative of the 
royal power by which they are all sustained. The horns of an 
animal are another symbol of strength, or perhaps we had 
better say of force, since they are only useful to the owner as a 
weapon of attack or defence. The strength lies in the bull ; the 
act of force, in the horn with which he strikes. Two or more 
horns rising from the same head, in the hieroglyphic language 
of the East, being generally understood to represent the number 
of kingdoms under the command of some supreme monarch; 
why might not the single horn on the head of the bull be typical 
of the concentrated force of an empire ? But the prophet Daniel 
(who wrote in this very empire) thus explains the position of such 
a horn: “ And the great horn that is between his eyes is the 
first king;” (Dan. c. viii. v. 21.) meaning the founder of an em¬ 
pire. A single horn representing Cyrus, on these symbols, in the 
same way that Daniel speaks of Alexander under this figure as 
founding the Macedonian empire on the ruins of that of Cyrus. 
In the Zendavesta, it is stated that the. bull was the first 
created animal; that his essence proceeded from the moon, and 
from him sprung men, and all other animals. Some remarks of 
Mr. Faber on this subject, to be found in that invaluable treasury 
of profound learning, his work on the-' “ Origin of Pagan 
Idolatry,” are highly illustrative of the true meaning attached to 
