ABRACADABRA is The Bull, the only Bull.

 

 For ABRACADABRA is The Bull, the only Bull. Concerning abracadabra Samson Arnold Mackey (Mythological Astronomy of the Ancients Demonstrated) states:

"But the slow progressive disappearance of the Bull is most happily commemorated in the vanishing series of letters so emphatically expressive of the great astronomical fact.

For ABRACADABRA is The Bull, the only Bull. The ancient sentence split into its component parts stands thus:

Ab'r-achad-ab'ra, i. e., Ab'r,
the Bull; achad, the only, - Achad is one of the names of the Sun,
given him in consequence of his Shining ALONE, - he is the ONLY Star to be seen when he is seen -
the remaining ab'ra, makes the whole to be,

The Bull, the only Bull; while the repetition of the name omitting a letter, till all is gone, is the most simple, yet the most satisfactory method that could have been devised to preserve the memory of the fact; and the name of Sorapis, or Serapis, given to the Bull at the above ceremony puts it beyond all doubt.

This word (Abracadabra) disappears in eleven decreasing stages; as in the figure. And what is very remarkable, a body with three heads is folded up by a Serpent with eleven Coils, and placed by Sorapis: and the eleven Volves of the Serpent form a triangle similar to that formed by the ELEVEN diminishing lines of the abracadabra."

"SATOR-AREPO-TENET-OPERA-ROTAS" by self-work - Own work. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

* VOLVES =  to turn or roll over
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