Taurus the Clever – Taurus the Bull (Astrology / Constellation)
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He is one of the four creatures you fight on the first floor of the Tower of the Helephant. His associate is Ervin the Barbarian. In a turn-about dungeon Ervin and Taurus are the toughest battle in the Tower of the Helaphant.
Speech
Ervin the Barbarian: “Taurus! Someone has found our rope! No matter! We’ll make short work of them!”
Taurus the Clever: “Indeed my barbaric friend. The Heart of the Helephant shall be ours and ours alone. Destroy them!”
Taurus (♉︎) (Ancient Greek: Ταῦρος, romanized: Taûros, lit. ’bull’) is the second astrological sign in the modern zodiac. It spans from 30° to 60° of the zodiac. This sign belongs to the Earth element or triplicity, and has a feminine or negative polarity, as well as a fixed modality, quality, or quadruplicity. It is a Venus-ruled sign along with Libra. The Moon is in its exaltation here at exactly 3°. The Sun transits this sign from approximately April 20 until May 20 in western astrology.
The sign of Taurus is associated with several myths and bull worship from several ancient cultures. It was the first sign of the zodiac established among the Mesopotamians, who called it “The Great Bull of Heaven,” as it was the constellation through which the Sun rose on the vernal equinox at that time, that is the Early Bronze Age, from about 4000 BC to 1700 BC.
Taurus is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the northern celestial hemisphere. Taurus is a large and prominent constellation in the Northern Hemisphere’s winter sky. It is one of the oldest constellations, dating back to the Early Bronze Age at least, when it marked the location of the Sun during the spring equinox. Its importance to the agricultural calendar influenced various bull figures in the mythologies of Ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Its old astronomical symbol is Taurus symbol (♉︎), which resembles a bull’s head.
He is being hunted by Orion the Hunter
A number of features exist that are of interest to astronomers. Taurus hosts two of the nearest open clusters to Earth, the Pleiades and the Hyades, both of which are visible to the naked eye. At first magnitude, the red giant Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation. In the northeast part of Taurus is Messier 1, more commonly known as the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant containing a pulsar. One of the closest regions of active star formation, the Taurus-Auriga complex, crosses into the northern part of the constellation. The variable star T Tauri is the prototype of a class of pre-main-sequence stars.
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