The Hyperbole of the ox.

The castration of a young bull by nomads in Anatolia after about 8000 B.C. was doubtless a superstitious and barbarous sacrifice. But it produced an ox, which was the first drought animal. With that beast, the nomads could settle down, cultivate the soil themselves, and think of philosophy and writing.
In English we can keep sight of of the primacy of the ox,since it has been given, the two most universal abstract symbols; the circle and the cross, the whole and the denial. The wholeness of the bull was sacrificed, cancelled.
Thou shall not muzzle the ox who treadeth out the corn. Later the bible the , the testament, and Moses took over and we don’t know whether the verses were meant for its relevance to agriculture, or for its meaning in our lives
“ he that ploweth should plow in hope; and he that thresheth in hope should be a partaker of his hope”.- Vinay-