论文标题
关于托罗克森和星星：密苏里州和图像的生命
On tauroctonies and stars: Mithras and the life of an image
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论文摘要
一个英雄或神，穿着东方服装和特里吉安帽，将他的身体压在公牛上，以征服它。他用弯曲的膝盖按下动物的后部，用左手握住头部，而右手则将匕首刺入野兽的脖子。弗里茨·萨克斯（Fritz Saxl）指的是公牛或托罗克托尼（Tauroctony）的牺牲的代表，曾经写道，他无法想象可以以如此精确地观察到图像的诞生的另一个情况。尽管Mithras崇拜的完整肖像学从一个庇护所到另一个庇护所有很大差异，但托罗克尼（Tauroctony）是所有寺庙中总是存在的元素，被认为是其意识形态的关键。阿比·沃堡（Aby Warburg）并未忽略这一图像，在他的双尔德拉斯·姆尼莫斯（Bilderatlas Mnemosyne）朝着太阳的升天时，在第8面板中繁殖了这张图像。在这项工作中，我们建议在很早就与星座有关，与天体球体的伟大圈子以及与季节性周期的某些单一时刻有关。我们将以对最近的猜测进行批判性分析的结论，这些猜测使天空运动的微妙方面受到了一个强大的上帝的驱动，该神居住在星空之外，并将其与公牛的象征性死亡联系起来。
A hero or a god, wearing an oriental garb and a Phrygian cap, presses his body on that of a bull to subdue it. With his flexed knee he presses the back of the animal and holds its head with his left hand, while with his right hand he stabs a dagger into the neck of the beast. Referring to this representation of the sacrifice of the bull, or tauroctony, Fritz Saxl once wrote that he could not imagine another case in which the birth of an image could be observed with such precision. Although the complete iconography of the Mithras cult varies substantially from one sanctuary to another, the tauroctony, an element always present in all temples, is considered key to its ideology. This image was not neglected by Aby Warburg and was reproduced in abundance in Panel 8 on the Ascension towards the Sun in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. In this work we propose to make a journey through the life of this image that, very early on, was related to the constellations, to the great circles of the celestial sphere and to certain singular moments of the seasonal cycle. We will conclude with a critical analysis of recent speculations that bring into play subtle aspects of the movement of the sky, driven by a powerful god who resided beyond the stars, and relate them to the symbolic death of the bull.
