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19/10/2014

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trebots

The origin of the bullfighting expression is surely religious, though. The Spaniards describe the Incas "brindando a su padre el sol", and bullfighting has something of the Apollonian about it,the mayor and his court and harem at the western end of the ring with the sun plunging into the earth behind them.

Peter Harvey

There might well be something in that but I can't find any reference.

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