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Veles, Taurus, and Mielikki

Here's another thing I learned last week... I'm a Taurus. Now, people who know me, and who know things about that kind of thing, know that I'm just about the most Taurus Taurean there is. While I may not personally put a lot of stock in the notion that stars billions of light years away control our destinies, there's no denying that people born at certain times of the year tend to  have certain traits or quirks that line up with their star sign. It was probably the other way around and misattributed to the stars. We'll probably never know. But never mind that part. There's something else interesting that falls under the banner of comparative mythology. Notably, this sign: Any guesses as to what that might be? Sure, it looks like a bull's head. And it is, in fact, a bull's head. But it's not a Taurus symbol. It's actually the glyph for the Slavic god Veles. Veles was one of the principal gods of the Slavic pantheon. His brother, Perun, was the god...