Religiously, the Age of Taurus in Egypt coincides with the worship of Apis, the bull-deity, the most important of all sacred animals in Egypt, said to be instituted during the Second Dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt. Everybody knew their place in relation to each other. They were all unified by the role of the Pharaoh, which was the ruler and the representative of a higher world on the Earth. They were aligned with each other, and they were feeding each other. Pharaoh Menkaura, accompanied by the goddess Bat on his right and the representation of the town Hu (in which Bat was worshipped) on his left. The three great pillars of human life on the Earth – civilizational order, religion, and spiritual tradition were all alive. In the late Taurian period, during the Old Kingdom (about 2700-2200 BC), Egypt erected some of the grandest architectural wonders of the ancient world and of all times, such as the Giza pyramids and the Great Sphinx. One of the finest examples of a Taurian civilization is Ancient Egypt, from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt (3100 BC). Examples are the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the Cretan/Minoan hieroglyphs. Writing emerged in many different cultures during this age. Technologically, the Age of Taurus saw the beginning of the Bronze Age at about 3300 BC and the first manufacturing of papyrus. This period is also known for its great myths that survived to this day, such as the Creation Myth and the Myth of Osiris in the Egyptian Pyramid Texts and the Epic of Gilgamesh of Sumer, to mention very few.
It is hard-working, structured, steady and persistent, and at the same time it appreciates beauty.Ī scene from the Epic of Gilgamesh on a clay cylinder It has an instinctive awareness, so it knows its place in the natural flow of things and it prefers the natural gut feeling over intellectual interpretation. The Element associated with Taurus is Earth, and as such, Taurus has a solid, practical, down-to-Earth, and sensual tone.
This narrower period saw the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt (a trace of the duality of the Age of Gemini) and the Early Dynastic period (by 3600 BC) the fortification of the Sumerian civilization with its legendary figure of Gilgamesh the establishment of the Minoan civilization in Crete and the flourishing of the Harappan Civilization in the Indus Valley. The more pure Taurus influence, outside the influence of the cusps of the earlier Gemini and the later Aries, was experienced between about 39 BC. Additional influences during this age are of Leo in the summer solstice, Scorpio in the autumnal equinox, and Aquarius in the winter solstice. It is the age defined by the Sun being in the constellation of Taurus on the spring equinox. The Age of Taurus spans approximately the period between 44 BC.
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