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A surgical operation was performed on bulls in the Nile River basin in antiquity-and is still performed there today-in which one horn is trained downward and forward and the other in a more normal upward and backward direction (fig. 1). This operation and its associations are considered in relation to hypothesized linkages among agricultural, religious, and medical practices which could explain the emergence in ancient Egypt of the beginnings of a rational, as distinct from a purely magical, basis for healing.l Cattle associations and imagery were prominent in the ancient Egyptian religion. In considering ways to approach these, to us, totally unfamiliar notions (e.g., their persistently important and cow cults; abundant metaphors like the king as strong bull, men as cattle of God, the sun as the bull of heaven, the sky as a huge cow), Frankfort
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