Africa is the hometown of human civilization, where the cattle industry has continued for thousands of years, and the worship of cattle has a long history. The Masai people in Africa are people who only eat milk and cow blood all their lives. Their measure of value is the number of cows in a family, with cows as the monetary unit. Marcel people don't even care whether the milk yield of cows is the highest, but concentrate on cultivating the most beautiful cows, so their cows have long sharp horns and are extremely beautiful. Madagascar is also known as the "Kingdom of Cattle". People here have a special almost fanatical worship of cattle. Cow is a symbol of personal wealth, and cow head is regarded as a symbol of the country. Cattle should be baptized like children here, and not be forced to work one day a week. It is said that there is also an image of a bull's head in ancient African myths and legends, but I have not found an exact written record for the time being, so I need to make a textual research here. "Mr. Meyer's raging waves"-Page 3 * * * Page 40 of Minotaur outside Crete
God in the sky
-Niuniu is in Egypt
The worship of sacred cows in Egypt was quite early, reaching its peak in the Middle Kingdom period (2040- 1640 BC), centering on Memphis, which connected the worship of sacred eagles in the ancient kingdom period and the worship of sacred sheep in the new kingdom period (this coincides with China's egg-laying myth and bird totem culture, and the Shang Dynasty also worshipped the totem of mysterious birds. It is said that their ancestral contract was born after their mother Judy swallowed a swallow's egg.
Among the Egyptian gods, Apis, the god of fertility and production, is the representative of the bull (note: this god is probably related to Baal-yes, it is the sun god Baal, and even indirectly related to Baal in Diablo II or The Gate of Victory); Horus, the patron saint of the Pharaoh's kingship, is in the shape of an eagle's head, and his wife is the Egyptian goddess Hassall. Hator was the most beautiful of all the goddesses in ancient Egypt, and her appearance was transformed into a cow. She is also one of the oldest goddesses in Egypt. She is known as the goddess of the sky in Greek, and once regarded as a god of death in Thebes, but she is generally regarded as the god of love, dance, wine and foreign countries.
Goddess of hatred
The sacred cow hater exists as a kind protector. Her image was widely carved on the stone walls of a large number of Pharaoh's tombs from BC 1350 to BC1KLOC-0/00. She is depicted as a cow lying on a reed mat, or a goddess with a cow's head, or a beautiful goddess, usually wearing a sun disc between the two corners of his head. Occasionally, I wear Menat (a special pendant similar to a necklace, but not jewelry, but a sacrificial device, which can also be used to convey the power of the goddess to the Pharaoh). "Mr Meyer's raging waves"-Minotaur off Crete, Page 4 * * * Page 40
R-rated
-Semitic worship of Taurus.
Semitic (Hebrew) people have a long tradition of worshipping cows. The worship of Baal (the golden calf god) and Baal god in ancient times can be traced back to the ancient times of14th century BC, which is related to the bull worship of the Egyptian civilization "Apis the god cow" (see above), and there is even a ceremony to dedicate the girl's "first night" to Taurus (Xie Note: Kouhu ... Editor: Are you challenging the layout? )。 Later, Spain also accepted this worship, which was linked with the worship of the sun because of Taurus.
The first harp in the world
-sumeru tauren
Cattle is one of the symbols of Sumerian culture. A golden tauren harp was found in the tombs of King Abaraj and Queen Subad of Ur Dynasty, one of the ancient countries of the first Sumerian Dynasty. This piano, with a cow's head as its handle, is exquisite in shape, bold in lines, symmetrical in structure and exquisite and gorgeous. Its body is decorated with lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, shells from the Indian Ocean and pink limestone from northern Iraq. This is the earliest harp found in the world. It was identified as a relic around 2600 BC.
Protect our homeland and defend our country.
-Tauren and Assyrians
Mesopotamia Plain in the two river basins is one of the cradles of the four ancient civilizations, where the military and political stages of Soviet-American polis, Babylonian Empire, Assyrian Empire and New Babylonian Empire appeared successively. A remarkable feature of the metal craft here is that the shapes of the works are mostly winged lions, cowherd, sheep, deer and other images. Lamassu is the monster of the head, lion and ox in Assyrian/Babylonian mythology, defending Assyrian temples and palaces. They have wings, can fly and are very powerful. Accordingly, the snake capital, a monster with a head, a cow's body and wings, joined Lamassu in defending Assyrian temples and palaces. At the entrance to the palace of King Sargon II of Assyria, there is a huge winged sphinx. The object of their worship is not the cow head, but the cow head. ...
The cow's thinking is vivid, and its nose seems to be moving.
This statue is called "Assyrian Bull" and is one of Assyrian gods. It is said that its face is carved in the image of King Sargon II himself. The fury of Mr Mayer-Minotaur outside Crete, page 5 * * * page 40.
Lamassu
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blossom everywhere
-Niuniu is in Greece
Greek civilization inherited the worship of cattle from Crete civilization. Zeus, an old man, once turned into a cow when he came down to pick up girls, and took the girl on the back of the cow to the new world-the origin of Europa. There are too many stories about cows in Greek mythology, and the legend of Crete belongs to pre-Greek mythology. However, since the topic of this talk is "Niutou outside Crete", I won't post these ubiquitous staple foods to cheat the manuscript fee. Generally speaking, Wang is rarely mentioned. He was the son of Zeus and Europa before his death and became one of the "three judges of hades" after his death. His rule is famous for its strict rule of law. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Crete civilization entered the Bronze Age in 2500 BC, while Athens was around 1200 BC, so the contrast between them is like a city dweller and a bumpkin.
[theseus vs Minotaur]
A large number of pottery, murals, bronze statues and sculptures have this classic scene. "Mr Meyer's rampage"-Minotaur outside Crete Page 7 * * * Page 40.
Kill me gently
Niu Niu and Man Zi are in Europe.
(/kloc-readers under 0/8 please skip this paragraph. ) According to the book "The Priest and the King, Celtic Ireland", when the ancient Irish were kings, there was a custom of making mosaics with white cows, and then the lover changed his face as soon as he said it. When this end ends with you, the other end will kill you to make soup, and the king and courtiers will eat meat together ... although most of them are pretending. The editor said angrily, I won't pay for the publication if you say these dirty jokes again! )。
Legend has it that the iconic image of Viking people, except for beards, long hair shawls, breastplates and sailing dhows, has no horn helmet. This also symbolizes their gloomy, struggling, brave and tenacious national spirit (well, in fact, ordinary Viking warriors don't wear that exaggerated horn helmet, only a few respected military leaders and priests occasionally wear it at sacrificial ceremonies). In the creation myth of northern Europe, the ox Odumbula and the giant Imil are the earliest two creatures. Giant cows lick the ice and some salt frost on the ice for a living, and giant Imil eats the milk of Audubra. Bree, the ancestor of the cow licking god, comes from the salt frost, so for the Nordic people, the cow is the ancestor of all things, and it is natural to regard the cow as its own image symbol.
In fact, the helmet worn by pirates is not decorated with horns.
Look for it, I'm the real thing!
A that's me.
-Niuniu and Latin letters
Phoenician (a northern Semitic language, now there are Hebrew letters, Arabic letters, Greek letters, Latin letters, etc. The letter can be traced back to Phoenicia), the initial letter α comes from the Sinai letter "Niu", and Sem (users include Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Canaanite) is pronounced aleph；; The second letter β comes from the Sinai letter "house" and is pronounced beth in Sem, so the first letter in Greek is pronounced alpha and the second letter is pronounced beta. The bull "ape" is the god of Egypt (see above), which is probably why the Phoenicians took α (bull head, symbolizing bull) as their initials. Later, the Latin made another innovation, putting α right and writing it as A, which became the first letter of almost all alphabets. Remember in the future, whenever you write a letter "A", you actually draw a bull's head. ...
Incarnate heaven and earth
-Niuniu is in Iran
In the ancient capital of Iran, Persepolis, you can still see the statue of the bull's head. Their myths and legends regard cows as the beginning of creating the universe.
In Genesis, the Iranian god Ahumazda, after creating the world of God, began to create the material world. He made primitive caio Marte and primitive cattle out of clay, made refined seeds of primitive people and primitive cattle out of the light and moisture of the sky, and put them in the stomachs of primitive people and primitive cattle to allow human beings and livestock to reproduce. Mitra, the sun god born of the goddess of the earth, sacrificed a white cow at the order of his mother. After the cow died, its trunk turned into the moon, its fur into stars, its tail into grain and its blood into grapes. The semen left by penis produces everything in the world, not only the universe is formed from it, but also the value judgment of good and evil is based on it. The myth that Mithra slaughtered the ox and created everything spread all over Asia and the Mediterranean coast, which can be seen from a large number of sculptures and pictures found in Mithra temples in these areas. Mitra was originally the Indian-Iranian sun god. Before Christianity came into being, Mithraism spread widely in South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Europe and became the main religion of the Roman Empire (see below). Archaeologists have found hundreds of sculptures and pictures about Mithras' creation by killing cows in the territory of the Roman Empire, which shows the influence of Mithras' worship in ancient nations. The fury of Mr Mayer-Minotaur outside Crete Page 8 * * * Page 40.
The ancient Iranian book Avisto didn't mention that mitra killed cattle, but there is a saying that the original cow was dying. In the Genesis of Avisto, the bull was not killed by Mitra, but was killed with the primitive people in the attack of the demon Ahriman. After his death, the cow was transformed into everything in the world, and the primitive man Gayo Marthe was killed by the devil. After his death, he lost his excellent seeds and scattered two plants, which made the world's first man and woman transformed. The twin brothers and sisters were lured by evil spirits to steal forbidden fruit and raped by blood relatives. Their copulation gave birth to people all over the world.
In another creation myth in Iran, the primitive man "made heaven with his head, earth with his feet, water with his tears, plants with his right hand, cows with his right hand, and fires with his reason", and his position was evident. -Niuniu is in India
India is probably the country that worships cows the most in the world, and the tradition of worshipping sacred cows can be traced back to ancient times. At that time, when the Aryan tribes moved to the subcontinent, their fate was closely linked to the life of cattle. Many Hindus hope that they will be reincarnated as cattle in their next life. The protection and worship of cattle has been written into the core teachings of Hinduism. Except for West Bengal and Kerala, the laws of other places prohibit the killing of cattle. Article 48 of the Guiding Principles of National Policy clearly stipulates: "It is forbidden to slaughter cows and calves and other animals that produce milk and pack animals". Milk, cheese, butter, cow urine and cow dung are called five treasures, and cow urine and cow dung are sacred objects to purify filth and sin. There are tens of thousands of free cows in Delhi. They paraded through the streets. No one will drive them away. Other means of transportation must make way for cows. If a cow happens to be in the vegetable market, it can choose anything it likes. Gamer, the birthplace of the Ganges, means "cow's mouth" in Hindi. Ganges water is a clear spring spit out from the mouth of a sacred cow, so it is regarded as holy water. In the past, rabbis in ancient Judea banned Jews from eating pork to prevent filariasis; Similarly, the sages of ancient India regarded cows as gods, saving the cows that people depended on from being slaughtered. Mahatma Gandhi (1869- 1948) is a devout believer in the Hindu doctrine of cow protection. He said, "The core fact of Hinduism is to protect cows ... Protecting cows is a gift that India has taught the world ... Hinduism will last forever with Indians who protect cows."
Two years ago, Toyota filed a lawsuit against Geely Automobile for similar trademarks.
Eradicate diseases and epidemics
-Tauren in Japan
The Gion Festival, held in July every year, is an annual event of Masako Yasaka. Gion Festival originated in the early Kyoto people's suppression of the tauren Wang Shen specially invited from India in order to eliminate the plague, and the Fa Hui has evolved into three major festivals in Kyoto since its spread. Yasaka Shrine, dedicated to King Tau, is a very special shrine building in Japan. It is not only the peak of incense, but also the temple frequented by geisha.
There is another saying: King Tauren is called King Tauren, and King Tauren is called King Tauren. The "god of plague" is not from India, but the "tauren king" that Qin believed in Kyoto. As the name implies, the Qin family is from the mainland and its descendants in ancient times. They came to China in the Han Dynasty to escape the war, claiming to be descendants of Qin Shihuang. They not only brought advanced production technology, but also brought their living customs and beliefs to other countries. In the 9th century, the "ferryman" Qin had a great influence, and the god of plague he believed in, the "King of Tauren", was also welcomed into the society and became a social sacrifice.
If you like Japanese cars, pay attention! Toyota's logo is not only transformed into the first letter T of Toyota, but also an abstract bull's head. When you buy a Toyota, you also buy a "scalper" car to go home. The tauren is in China.
Shangshu preaches that Fuxi, Shennong and Huangdi are the three oldest emperors in China. Huang San, one of the gods, is still circulating in the Han Dynasty. Huang San, Huangdi and Ren Huang were the emperors of Shu Wei at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. In Taoist classics, Huang San is divided into three groups: early, middle and late: the third emperor is still human; Huang San has a face, a snake body or a dragon body; In post-Huang San, Fuxi was the queen, Nuwa was the queen and Shennong was the queen.
Shennong (Emperor Yan): "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, so he eliminated them with tea." This is the record of Shennong Herbal Classic. The story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs is a widely spread and far-reaching legend in ancient China. Shennong is the "Yan Emperor" among the three emperors and five emperors regarded as ancestors by the descendants of the Chinese nation, and is a representative figure of prehistoric ancestors in China. According to legend, Shennong is a tauren, and the century emperor said, "Emperor Yan is a tauren, longer than Jiang Shui", and the emperor's genealogy said, "Shennong is a tauren", which may be the idea that the ancestors who mastered farming technology at that time regarded Shennong as a "god of agriculture".
Chiyou: Chiyou is also a cow's head and hoof with sharp corners. Ren Fang's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, quoted earlier, records: "Zhuolu is in Jizhou, where there is a god Chiyou, and an ordinary cloud has a cow's hoof with four eyes and six hands ... In the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was said that Chiyou had ears like a sword halberd and a horn on its head. He fights with Xuanyuan, and his horns can't reach people. Now there is a musical name' Chiyou Opera' in Jizhou. People wear horns in twos and threes, which cancel each other out. Han made a corner to cover his legacy. " All these show that Chiyou people take cattle as their totem. After Chiyou's death, he maintained great recognition from his hometown in Shandong to Yungui in Sichuan, which became the source of the martial spirit and unruly style of Dongyi people. Until the Warring States period, the gods in Qi people's hearts were heaven, earth and human-god. Both Qin Shihuang and Liu Bang sacrificed to the god of war, Chiyou. Chiyou's legendary image of "bronze head and iron forehead, flying sand and stones" and his five weapons, such as Ge, Hu, Ji, Emirates spear and Yi spear, seem to indicate that they are a people who started smelting iron very early, and according to the Miao people's myth about Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor is disguised as "Lei Laowu". This is (why should I say it again? ) is it a portrayal of the senior bronze tribe against the primitive stone tribe? The fury of Mr Mayer-Minotaur outside Crete Page 9 * * * Page 40.
Horn, copper head, iron forehead, four eyes, eating sand and iron, superb weapons, can call the wind and rain to make smoke and fog.
Yak creates the world
The tauren is in Tibet.
King Kong is one of the eight protectors of Tibetan tantra, with nine heads and different faces. In the middle is the buffalo head symbolizing Yan Luowang, with a fiery red hairstyle and 34 arms. In the middle, two arms hugged the mother of King Kong's body, while others held various tools, such as a shotgun knife and a Gebala bowl.
Tibetan compatriots in China believe in Tibetan Buddhism, and their worship of cattle (yak) is no less than that of Indian Buddhists. The Tibetan Genesis myth "The Origin of Everything" says: "The head, eyes, intestines, hair, hooves and heart of cattle have become the sun, moon, stars, rivers, lakes, forests and mountains." . This is the deification and materialization of totem yak worshipped by Tibetan ancestors. The Tibetan fairy tale "Song of the Spartan Cattle", which is still widely circulated in Amdo Tibetan area, says: "Sparta came into being, heaven and earth were mixed, and Dapeng fell the next day." "When Spa slaughtered the calf, he cut off the cow's head and threw it on the ground, and there was a high mountain peak; Cut off the oxtail and throw it on the side of the road, and there will be a winding road; Peel off the cowhide from the floor and you will have a flat leaf. " . He also said, "when Spa slaughtered the calf, he left a piece of fresh beef, and the cock stole it from his head;" Drop a piece of white butter, the magpie steals it and sticks it to its stomach; Drop some red bull blood, and the red-billed duck steals its mouth. " SRID means "universe" and "world" in Tibetan.
According to Tibetan historical records, before the rise of Buddhism, Tibetan primitive religion was dominant, and yak was once called "god cow", which was revered by the ruling and opposition parties, politics and religion. At that time, killing a yak had to be recited 300 times by local people, otherwise it would be punished. The bull's head mask in this religious dance demonstration is obviously a religious form with the totem image yak as the incarnation of the gods, which is used to suppress evil spirits and ward off evil spirits. Wizards of this sect regard yaks as sacred objects in the practice of Dojo, which are used to punish evil, exorcise evil spirits, uphold justice and protect human and animal safety. In some monasteries of this Sect, mantras are carved on yak skulls and then enshrined in shrines for monks and secular disciples to pay homage to.
According to Tibetan legend, when Manjusri Bodhisattva surrendered, she became the Dharma Divine Comedy Jia (French King). His head and face are buffalo-shaped, his body is blue, he wears a five-bone crown, has three eyes, and his hair stands upright. There is a flame symbolizing anger around his head, and a string of human skull beads and a big collar made of a stranger's head are hung around his neck. There are two hands, the right hand holds the skull stick and the left hand holds the lasso, indicating his strength and surrender method. This is a typical bull's head Buddha statue.
Geography of Han Dynasty: "Its tomb is five feet high in Kanxiang Town, Shouzhang County, Dongping County (now Wang Nan Town, Wenshang County, Shandong Province)." "Historical Records" contains 28 volumes: "The three-day soldier ancestor resigned from Chiyou, who was in Qixi, Lu Han Township, Dongping. "-the offspring of the tauren.
The Chiyou people are called "Jiuli", and their descendants "Sanmiao" are the ancestors of the Miao people ("Jiuli, Li Jiuren, Chiyou migrated", "Sanmiao, after Jiuli" ~ "Mandarin Chu"), so Chiyou is still the great ancestor of the Miao people. Miao people believe that Chiyou is the creator of Miao ancient prose (now lost), and the myth of Chiyou circulating in Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou emphasizes that Chiyou began to use bronze weapons earlier than the Yellow Emperor. In Miao language, the name "Chiyou" is still retained, that is, ZidYeus. Zid here means "father" and Yeus means "man", which together means brave and capable people. Anyone who is big, brave and capable is often called ZidYeus by others. When Miao people in Wenshan, Yunnan "set foot on Huashan Mountain" to dance Lusheng, they should first offer sacrifices to their ancestors Chi You, erect flower poles and hang red cloth on Gui, that is, "Chi You Banner". When offering sacrifices to Chiyou, the sacrificial teacher chanted scriptures and offered sacrifices to the shrine, telling the story of Chiyou's struggle with the Yellow Emperor and the process of migration after his failure. Because Chiyou loves and respects cows, the most typical headdress of Miao family is the cow's head exposed in the flowers in the grass, and the two curved buffalo horns raised high in the headdress of Miao girl's silver horn are the symbols of Miao beauty. In the past, only Zhai Hua could wear such a headdress.
Gouhun messenger
-The tauren is in the crowd.
In China's long agricultural society, farmers have great respect for cattle. They think that if a person has a pair of "bull's eyes", he will "die like wealth"; If a person grows into a "bull shape", then he is not only "born with rare diseases", but also "born with a thick life, strong-minded and modest" If he were a little later and slower, thousands of warehouses would accumulate wealth in pastoral areas "-The Complete Works of God, said a street fortune teller.
[Tauren: Gouhun Messenger]
In the myth of Zhuang nationality, the cow is a sacred thing in the sky, and the cow is a god in the sky. He sent the ox king down to earth to plant a hundred kinds of herbs, and then stayed on the ground to eat grass and cultivate. The eighth day of April every year is the birthday of Niu Wang, which is the traditional "Niu Soul Festival" of Zhuang nationality. In Zhuang language, it is called "outside Genkun", and a very grand sacrifice activity is to be held.
In folklore, the head horse face is a famous headhunter in hades. Ghost towns in Du Feng, as well as city god temples all over the country, all have the image of a cow's head and a horse's face. Tauren originated from Buddhism. The bull's head, also called Abang, is in the shape of a bull's head with a steel fork, which can overcome high mountains. According to the "Tiecheng Mud Plough Classic", "When Abang was a man, he was a bull's head in the underworld because he was unfilial to his parents. After his death, he served as an officer of patrolling and searching for fugitives". On the Gobi Desert in Xincheng Township, 20 kilometers northeast of Jiayuguan City, there are 1400 underground mural brick tombs in Wei and Jin Dynasties (AD 220-4 19), which is known as "the largest underground gallery in the world". Among them, the most representative is Tomb No.6, and the wall of the tomb door is inlaid with architectural modeling bricks such as Tuoliang Qilix, Leigong, Tuoliang beast, chicken head and cow head.
Classic handed down from ancient times-the cow of Zen Buddhism
[Figure 10 Cattle: Looking for Cattle]
"Ten Bull Map" refers to the ten processes from the beginning to the successful end of a Zen practitioner by herding cattle.
It is worth mentioning that in China, Buddhist thought has been specially sublimated in the form of cattle. In Zen Buddhism, cattle originally meant freedom of life and death, and Buddha was compared to the king of cattle. /kloc-in the 20th century, Guo An, a Zen master, expanded and redrawn the Eight Cattle Map handed down from Taoism in China into the Ten Cattle Map Fu. Ten pictures are used to show the process from looking for a cow to finding a heart to sitting at home, so as to illustrate the method and order of practice. It is regarded as the pinnacle of Zen art, the treasure of Zen master's education of disciples in past dynasties, and even the concentrated symbol of a huge doctrine system.
The so-called "Ten Cattle Map" is to show a yogi, like a shepherd boy, how to find a cow, how to see it, how to get it, how to forget it, and finally return to the source, hanging his hand in the street (referring to the mortal world), how to show his original scenery or how to open a white cow-natural wonder or prajnaparamita Buddha nature. Although this is not the ten stages that every practitioner will or must go through, we can get some information about the practice process from it. The Picture of Ten Cows was printed together with Inscription of Confidence, Song of Truth and Meditation Instrument, which had a great influence in the Zen forest. It was popular not only in China, but also in South Korea and Japan. Ode to Ten Cows, written by a Buddhist teacher in Yishan, Japan, is based on the framework of Ishihara's Ode to Ten Cows.