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  Much of the Moorish legacy has been glossed in zoomorphic motifs, mythologized by both ancient and modern writers alike. We find Moorish history deeply embedded in as the foundations of old folklores, fairytales, comics, movies, novels, and even children’s nursery rhymes. All these various mythologizations concerned totemic symbology. Perhaps one of the most notable nursery rhymes, "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe." This so-called children's counting-out rhyme was said to be used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. However, author Henry Carrington Bolton in his book “The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children: A Study of Folk-Lore,” thoroughly describes his research into the origins of various children’s “counting-out rhymes” that were popular at the time. The...

Moorish Tauroctony: Mithraic Mysteries of the Old Ones; and the Cultural Origins of the Totemic Rites of the Divine Bull Compiled by Aummanuel Bey Cultic animals Many animals have been totemic emblems for tens of thousands of years. These animals were representative of nation-states and tribes of people and their beliefs. Cultic animals were indeed symbols of land, people, and deities. Even today, we see this archaic tradition continues in the modern age with sports teams being represented by animal mascots, associating a team with an animal. Perhaps one of the oldest and most prominent worship animals in early agricultural societies is the “Bull.” Latest genetics research revealed that farming revolution has started in and around the “Taurus Mountains” in...