This article contains a valuable review of the various forms of primitive bull worship in which the bull represented the god's virility and potential for destructiveness. The bull fighting games that emerged in various ritualized forms are seen as symbolizing the son's Oedipal revolt against the father in which he must kill or be killed, castrate or be castrated. Pollock attempts to deal with so many other symbolic representations of this ritual that these concepts appear less vivid in the resulting confusion.