the bull head mask mentioned in that x thread is very interesting. there are references to baal, el, and moloch that depict them with the heads of bulls. the latter, of course, had children sacrificed to him as a ritual dedicated to certain canaanite gods. it also recalls the golden calf, still a symbol of wall st, and the bull apis in his humanized greek form serapis, whose cult was established by ptolemy and who, therefore, is a symbol of imperial kingship.

the bull represents to these people the confluence of painful torture, great wealth, and universal power.