Horned And Winged Bull

HORNED AND WINGED BULL - Nimrod. Symbolized not only his own authority but those "mighty ones" under his command. The wide expanded wings symbolized the great extent of his reach and power. Aristophanes, says that in the beginning "the birds" were fist created, then the "race of the blessed immortal gods." What may be meant by this is (if "the birds" are the same as the "winged ones") first men "began to be mighty on the earth," and then the leaders of "these mighty ones" were deified. Aristophanes also claims that the ancestor of "the birds" and of the gods was Cupid, the son of Venus, and that he made the "birds" and the "gods" by "mingling all things."