Photo "Kiss of Judas"
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15 march 2023
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This photograph is being shared on social media under the title "The Judas Kiss". In the picture, a man is kissing a bull. It is reported that the case takes place during a bullfight.
Bullfighting is a traditional Spanish entertainment, during the performance, the bullfighter or matador “fights” with the bull, sticks blades into it, often the performance ends with the death of the animal, although it happened the other way around.
According to legend, the man in the photo raised this bull from the age of a calf to the state of a fighting bull, then sold it to participate in a bullfight. During the performance, the already wounded bull noticed that his master was there and ran up to him. There was this scene that got into the photo. The man did nothing to save the bull, the bullfight continued, they write that the bull was slaughtered.
P.S. - the topic recalled a poem by the Soviet, Russian poetess Yulia Drunina with the same name as this photo:
In all ages
Always, everywhere and everywhere
It repeats
Cruel dream -
The inexplicable kiss of Judas
And those damned pieces of silver ringing.
Understand this -
A futile task.
Guessing humanity again:
Let me betray
(When I couldn't help it!)
But why
Kissing on the lips?
(from the collection of Yulia Drunina. "The world is impossibly confused" Moscow: Russian book, 1997)
Myth refutation. Another version.
In a publication on the Spanish portal https://factual.afp.com/el-hombre-de-esta-foto-de-2011-es-un-recortador-que-beso-espontaneamente-al-toro, journalists say that they had a great investigation, established the location and date of the shooting, found other photographs from the same event and spoke with eyewitnesses who were present.
The photo was taken at the Plaza de Toros de Estella (Navarra) on August 9, 2011 as part of the bullfighting festival, but there was no bullfighting in the usual sense in this case.
The man in the photo is a trimmer athlete. From Wikipedia: A trimmer is a toreador who, with the help of only his body or with the help of some simple device, such as a stick as a pole (garrocha), skillfully performs pirouettes before the onslaught of a bull or heifer, such as sweeps, jumps higher or side bends, bull jumping.
Trimmers really provoke bulls, but they do not use bladed weapons, much less kill animals. Opponents of bullfighting in Spain have nothing against this show, because they believe that here the animal and the person are on an equal footing.
The bull drew attention to the athlete, who is standing outside the arena waiting for his turn, something interested the bull, he came up to sniff the man. The athlete kissed the bull on the nose, as he often does in such situations.
In general, it seems that social networks have lied again. Who would have thought ... The most interesting thing is that in social networks under this photo, they still talk about the fact that a person is the most cruel creature in the world and of that kind. Yeah, and also - the most lying.
Bullfighting is a traditional Spanish entertainment, during the performance, the bullfighter or matador “fights” with the bull, sticks blades into it, often the performance ends with the death of the animal, although it happened the other way around.
According to legend, the man in the photo raised this bull from the age of a calf to the state of a fighting bull, then sold it to participate in a bullfight. During the performance, the already wounded bull noticed that his master was there and ran up to him. There was this scene that got into the photo. The man did nothing to save the bull, the bullfight continued, they write that the bull was slaughtered.
P.S. - the topic recalled a poem by the Soviet, Russian poetess Yulia Drunina with the same name as this photo:
In all ages
Always, everywhere and everywhere
It repeats
Cruel dream -
The inexplicable kiss of Judas
And those damned pieces of silver ringing.
Understand this -
A futile task.
Guessing humanity again:
Let me betray
(When I couldn't help it!)
But why
Kissing on the lips?
(from the collection of Yulia Drunina. "The world is impossibly confused" Moscow: Russian book, 1997)
Myth refutation. Another version.
In a publication on the Spanish portal https://factual.afp.com/el-hombre-de-esta-foto-de-2011-es-un-recortador-que-beso-espontaneamente-al-toro, journalists say that they had a great investigation, established the location and date of the shooting, found other photographs from the same event and spoke with eyewitnesses who were present.
The photo was taken at the Plaza de Toros de Estella (Navarra) on August 9, 2011 as part of the bullfighting festival, but there was no bullfighting in the usual sense in this case.
The man in the photo is a trimmer athlete. From Wikipedia: A trimmer is a toreador who, with the help of only his body or with the help of some simple device, such as a stick as a pole (garrocha), skillfully performs pirouettes before the onslaught of a bull or heifer, such as sweeps, jumps higher or side bends, bull jumping.
Trimmers really provoke bulls, but they do not use bladed weapons, much less kill animals. Opponents of bullfighting in Spain have nothing against this show, because they believe that here the animal and the person are on an equal footing.
The bull drew attention to the athlete, who is standing outside the arena waiting for his turn, something interested the bull, he came up to sniff the man. The athlete kissed the bull on the nose, as he often does in such situations.
In general, it seems that social networks have lied again. Who would have thought ... The most interesting thing is that in social networks under this photo, they still talk about the fact that a person is the most cruel creature in the world and of that kind. Yeah, and also - the most lying.
