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Deities depicted as cattle (cows and bulls) or whose myths and iconography are associated with cattle. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
Bovines depicted in mythology. General characteristics include cloven hooves and usually at least one of the sexes of a species having true horns . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological bovines .
Cow Pogo: Walt Kelly: A freckled cow that travels westward, whose name is a pun on Horace Greeley. Kuksi Donkey Kuksi: Victor Vashi Main character in a cartoon animal comic. [5] Look-Out Giraffe Boner's Ark: Mort Walker: One of the passengers aboard of Boner's ark. As his name implies, he has to look for land. [6] Het Paard van Sinterklaas Donkey.
The Hindu god Krishna is often shown with cows listening to his music. The calf is compared with the dawn, in Hinduism.Here, with a sadhu.. Many ancient and medieval Hindu texts debate the rationale for a voluntary stop to cow slaughter and the pursuit of vegetarianism as a part of a general abstention from violence against others and all killing of animals.
This is a list of agriculture gods and goddesses, gods whose tutelary specialty was agriculture, either of agriculture in general or of one or more specialties within the field. Each god's culture or religion of origin is listed; a god revered in multiple contexts are listed with the one in which he originated. Roman gods appear on a separate list.
Helios, who in Greek mythology is the god of the Sun, is said to have had seven herds of oxen and seven flocks of sheep, each numbering fifty head. [3] In the Odyssey, Homer describes these immortal cattle as handsome (ἄριστος), wide-browed (εὐρυμέτωπος), fat, and straight-horned (ὀρθόκραιρος). [4]
Kamadhenu, the cow of plenty. Kamadhenu also known as Surabhi, is a bovine-goddess described in Hinduism as the mother of all cows. She is a miraculous "cow of plenty" who provides her owner whatever he desires and is often portrayed as the mother of other cattle as well as the eleven Rudras. The following are the offspring of Kamadhenu.
The reconstructed cosmology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans shows that ritual sacrifice of cattle, the cow in particular, was at the root of their beliefs, as the primordial condition of the world order. [53] [43] The myth of *Trito, the first warrior, involves the liberation of cattle stolen by a three-headed entity named *Ngʷʰi.