Can anyone help me with this quote, I'm not sure were it comes from but has been rattaling about in my head for months.
2006-06-17 21:05:11 · 5 answers · asked by gas_meter 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
could it be referring to the bull of heaven?
the bull of heaven is the constellation called taurus controlled by the sky god Anu. the bull of heaven appears in the epic of gilgamesh. After gilgamesh upsets the goddess ishtar, she convinces her father Anu to send the bull of heaven to earth to destroy the crops and kill people. However gilgamesh enkidu kill the bull of heaven. the gods are angry that the bull of heaven has been killed . As punishment for killing the bull enkidu falls ill and dies. So the story goes.................................
2006-06-17 21:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like an allusion to killing the fatted calf for the return of the prodigal son, a bible parable
could also be an allusion to cattle ranching...a bull is worth a lot of money since this is where you get more cows from (or from his sperm). In the case of a bull that has very desireable genes, from a breeding standpoint, a rancher might charge stud fees for another rancher to breed his cows with the bull. Hence you would never kill a bull just to butcher it and eat it, to use another expression, it would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. So the saying is alluding to the fact that the person for whom a bull is about to killed and butchered so it can be cooked and eaten must really be someone very special.
2006-06-18 17:56:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spanish matatdors have that saying.
2006-06-17 21:50:01 · answer #3 · answered by satar032 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be the bible, a derivitive of the fatted calf.
2006-06-18 03:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Owen Money 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds as if something special is demanded by someone undeserving and this the reply
2006-06-22 20:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by MAGGIENICE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋