Taurus- the Comic Bull in the Sky

Today on Sense of Soul podcast we have Stephen Palmer, he is the
author of twenty genre novels, numerous narrative nonfiction and
fiction books, published by various publishers since 1996. His
most recent directions are into music books, and
anthropology/psychology with his critically lauded work 'I Am
Taurus.' His fiction has been in the fields of steampunk, SF, and
near-future AI novels. The constellation we know as Taurus goes
all the way back to cave paintings of aurochs at Lascaux. In I Am
Taurus, author Stephen Palmer traces the story of the bull in the
sky, starting from that point 19,000 years ago - a journey
through the history of what has become known as the sacred bull.
Each of the eleven sections is written from the perspective of
the mythical Taurus, from the beginning at Lascaux to
Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Spain and elsewhere. This is
not just a history of the bull but also an attempt to see
ourselves through the eyes of the bull, illustrating our
pre-literate use of myth, how the advent of writing and the urban
revolution changed our view of ourselves, and how even the most
modern of rituals - bullfighting in Spain - is a variation on the
ancient sacrifice of the sacred bull. His main area of interest
is the evolution of consciousness, about which he writes on his
Substack. A materialist, he emphasises the evolutionary
description of our minds and of the human condition itself.


You can find him via his Substack, his blog at
stephenpalmer.co.uk, or via his Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063669513509&__n=K


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