Bulls, stars ande cave paintings

Some time ago I saw picture of paintings of the Sahara. One depicted a big dotted bull, but instead of dots it had spirals. Spirals are probably a widespread symbol of stas (I will discuss this topic elsewhere), and therefore I suspect that the bull represented the vault of the night sky. As a matter of fact, I remember a Egyptian statue of the bull Apis with a mantle of stars (but I cannot retrieve it). And recently I found out in this interesting site, who states that the aurochs in the Lascaux cave are a representation of the constellation of the Taurus (more probably of the sky at the moment of the autumn equinox).

Myth

You can tell the story of Ulysses in one hundred different ways; you can write the lenghty Odyssey, or a short summary of one page, the meaning you convey is the same; but if you try to explain this meaning, this is impossible, you will always lose some understanding. This impossibility to translate the story into an explanation is a characteristic of myths. Myths are usually exemplar stories, that represent universal archetypes: the Greek myths, the stories of the Bible, the fairy tales. Post-christian literature often attempted to create myths, with scarce success. For instance, Amleth is a translation of Oresteia in psychological terms, because psychology kills the force of myth, that lies in the spiritual truths told by the story. The only exception are, strangely, many American telefilms; Columbus and possibly Dr House are plainly mythical creations.