Cows are not just sacred to Hindus, they are a part of all Indo-European religions. From the Greeks and Romans to the Celts and Vikings all of them worshipped and sacrificed cows. This comes from a sacred primordial cow sacrifice in Proto-Indo-European (Aryan) myth which is quite similar to the Zoroastrian Gavaevodata, the Hindu Kamadhenu also known as Surabhi (सुरभि), or the Old Norse Auðumbla. The sacrifice of the cow itself by the first three men is very similar to the sacrifice of the bull by Mithras. The divine Aryan twins have parallels in Roman (Romulus and Remus) and Anglo-Saxon (Hengest and Horsa) origin myths.
All this shows that the cow is the most important and sacred of animals.
It was sacred for basically all ancient Eurasian cultures
Nathan Stewart
Yes, but the mostly the Indo-Europeans that worshiped and the cow even though all other cultures worshipped it.
Isaiah Diaz
muh pastoralism muh ability to digest lactose
Jackson James
No, all Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Old European cultures worshiped it
Isaac Ross
THE COW DID NOT BECOME SACRED UNTIL AFTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE, BECAUSE COWS AIDED IN AGRARIAN LABOUR, THUS THEY WERE REVERED; WITH RACIAL DEGRADATION, THIS REVERENCE DEGENERATED INTO VENERATION, THEN, WITH FURTHER DEGENERATION, RITUAL BOVINE KILLING PRACTICES STARTED DEVELOPING.
Joshua Rogers
Obviously if its Aryan then it spread with the language/script (the alphabet) and mixed with the customs/traditions of those (to them) new areas. Looks like the nobles wanted to keep the cows for themselves desu
Jack Walker
stop yelling
Asher Hill
The Brahmins used to eat cow
Jason Perry
READ MY POST AGAIN, AND MAYBE YOU WILL REALIZE THAT THAT IS EXPLAINED BY WHAT I POSTED.
