Symbols - What does heaven look like
Bull and cow

A less used but nevertheless important symbol found in some eastern religions, as well as ancient Egypt, we have the Creator as bull and the Created as the cow - the cow being a relatively passive and productive animal, the bull being virile and productive . Both cows and bulls also have twin horns. Finally, the cow gives milk – similar to the Milky Way and thus a symbol of the realm of the stars. Thus these reasons [amongst many others ] are why the cow is sacred to the Hindus.
The cow, is a figure associated with the Moon – not a Creator, but a part of the Created – the passive component of Creation.
The Moon [Sun and Moon] can symbolically create souls, it is symbolically the source of all the little ‘implemented packages’, thus it is the origin of anything physical , although the Creator role is the one that creates new function, the Created role implements it. Thus any change to the functionality of anything in the physical is the responsibility of this aspect of the spiritual world.
The Cow may be relatively passive but, for example, it is associated with the symbolic Flood – the change from an old version of our ‘software’ to a new version. All major and minor changes in the evolutionary process are achieved via the Cow [and by association the Moon].
Note that I have made these two roles seem like a single entity, but because of the Intelligence hierarchy, there may be many Intelligences that take a Cow or a Bull role.
Observations
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- Ancient Egyptian - Djew
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 02 Give us this day
- Attar, Fariduddin - Invocation
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 01
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 02
- Babylon - The Ishtar Gate 03
- Blake, William - And the North Gate of Golgonooza toward generation
- Brihad-Aranyaka Upanishad – The Creation myth – 02 Verses 1.4.4 to 1.4.6
- Chagall - green man
- Cirlot on bulls and cows
- Cocteau, Jean - Diary of an Unknown - Quotes
- Cohen, Leonard - Ballad of the Absent Mare
- Colin Wilson - Mysteries - Celtic gods and beliefs
- Crowley - 05 The Hierophant
- Crowley - 21 The Universe
- Daniélou, Alain – The Way to the Labyrinth – The ecstatic dances of the Sufis of Galand Bagh
- David Lewis-Williams - the Xam and Rain
- Delos - 09 Bull sculptures
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Eleanor C Merry – The Flaming Door - The cult of Hathor
- Euripides - The Bacchae and the fates
- Gaudi - Professional work - 04 The Sagrada Família
- Gaudi - Professional work - 11 The Artigas Gardens
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - The Red Heifer
- Hey diddle diddle
- Hobson, Dr Allan - An interesting dream
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Bull and Twin horns
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 06 The ‘Smithy’
- Indus valley - Harappa - 01 Introduction
- Indus valley - Harappa - 04 Seals and script
- Intelligences - PLANETS SATURN Nirig and Ugallu
- Intelligences - PLANETS VENUS Ashtar and Ishtar
- Jacquetta Hawkes – A Land – The beauty of rock art
- Karnataka and South India - 03 Airavatesvara Temple
- Karnataka and South India - 04 Bhoga Nandeeshwara and Arunachaleswara Temples
- Karnataka and South India - 05 Brihadeeswarar Temple, Thanjavur
- Karnataka and South India - 07 Gangaikonda Cholapuram temple
- Kepler, Johannes - from Somnium - Spirit helpers
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian Smoke Inhalation
- Malta - 06 Tarxien Temples
- Mircea Eliade - On animals and birds
- Mircea Eliade - On sky gods
- Mircea Eliade - The Storm gods
- Mircea Eliade – Patterns in Comparative religion - Bulls
- Ogotommeli - Twins
- Orphic hymn to the Mother of the gods
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 03 Gate of All Nations
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 06 Bull capitals and columns
- Persepolis - And its sacred geography 07 The Lion and the Bull
- Pillar of the Boatmen
- Pliny – On the sacred role of mistletoe to Druids
- Proust, Marcel - Collected Poems - Potter
- Rider-Waite - 10 Wheel of Fortune
- Rider-Waite - 21 The World
- Rig veda - Bull and Cow
- Rig veda - Soma
- Sacred geography – Picts – Souterrains or Step wells 02
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 01, XV Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 02, VII Maruts
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 02, X Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 02 Chapter 02, XVI Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 03 Chapter 02, XVI Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 06 Chapter 01, IX Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 07 Chapter 03, XII Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 08 Chapter 03, VI Dawn
- Segantini - Nature
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Bull
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1903 Bulls in the sea
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 14 - Farms, gates and cows
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3886
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 4208
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 56
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 792
- Susa - Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil
- Symbols – Picts – Constellation - Bull [Taurus]
- The Dorset Ooser mask
- This is the house that Jack built
- Totem group – Picts – Sign of Zodiac - Cow [or Ox]
- Ur - A song of praise to Nanna as the Shepherd of the Land
- Ur - Bull's head of the Gold lyre 2600- 2400 BC Mesopotamia
- Various symbolic objects - Kudurrus
- Various symbolic objects - Lamassu
- Who Killed Cock Robin
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Mushaf as-suwar - 5th Book of Magnesia picture 2