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This is from Armeno-Shubrian times, which is less of a mythology and more of an actual usage of the instrument plus the bull, which was indicative of Mesopotamian and previously, strictly an Armenian use of animal worship.
The bull was eventually absorbed by Semites (Jews, Assyrians), which was evident in Jewish worship of the golden calf or bull, which signified the Age of the Taurus.
The bull or Taurus was one of the animals and consequently, one of the constellations, which was observed in the Armenian highland from the Temple at Portasar (or current day Goebekli Tepe in Turkey). Considering the anthropomorphic nature
and the evolution of mythology, the bull was considered not only a sacred animal, but also an animal that tilled the lands, which of course, was eventually absorbed in Semitic mythology. It also has metaphysical concepts, occult cosmology, and male/female duality, which Lloiyd Graham wrote extensively in 1979, and Alexander Varbedian, in the 1990s.
The winged bull as depicted in the rhyton is based on the Armenian mythology which is also portrayed in the art of the Kingdom of Van-Ararat (Urartu). http://www.armenianhighland.com/images/nkarner/nkar_2115.jpg
