She is generally considered a war deity comparable with the Germanic Valkyries, although her association with a cow may also suggest a role connected with wealth and the land.

Ceremonial burials of bulls indicate that ritual sacrifice was part of the worship of the early cow deities and a bull might represent a king who became a deity after death.

The Apis bull is unique as he is the only Egyptian deity represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head — perhaps, because from the earliest of Egyptian religious practices, they were animals sacrificed to the cow goddess and represented the resurrected, renewal of life ( Hapy and later Osiris ).

In the historical era Hathor is shown using the imagery of a cow deity.

A stone urn recovered from Hierakonpolis and dated to the 1st dynasty has on its rim the face of a cow deity with stars on its ears and horns that may relate to Hathor's, or Bat's, role as a sky-goddess.

This may be a vestige of the sacrifice of kings after a period of reign, who were seen as the sons of Bat or Hathor, the ancient cow deity of the early solar cults.

The serekh on each side are flanked by a pair of bovine heads with highly curved horns, thought to represent the cow goddess Bat, who was the patron deity of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt and was also the deification of the cosmos and the Milky Way within Egyptian mythology during the pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom periods of Ancient Egyptian history.

The Fordicidia sacrifices a pregnant cow to the deity Tellus to promote cattle and field fertility.

While the cow is in the care of Mac Cinnfhaelaidh's brother Mac Samthainn, Balor appears in the form of a little red-haired boy and tricks him into giving him the cow.

She sometimes appears in the form of a crow, flying above the warriors, and in the Ulster cycle she also takes the form of an eel, a wolf and a cow.

Later she appears to him as an old woman bearing the same three wounds that her animal forms sustained, milking a cow.

* Sky Moo-A Large blue cow type creature that appears in ' The Seed ' episode, that helps the Clangers by eating all the vegetation that is over running their planet.

In contemporary literature, the Steller's sea cow appears in a book of poetry, Species Evanescens, by Russian poet Andrei Bronnikov.

After Cú Chulainn finally defeats Lóch, the Morrígan appears to him as an old woman milking a cow, with the same injuries he had given her in her animal forms.

Eric Shanower's novel, The Giant Garden of Oz, features a cow named Imogene, but she is of Ozite origin, but otherwise Imogene appears strictly in adaptations.

After he defeats his opponent, the Morrígan appears to him in the form of an old woman milking a cow, with wounds corresponding to the ones Cú Chulainn gave her in her animal forms.

In fact, the Pylean word for humankind appears to be " cow.

The Korova Milk Bar ( korova is Russian for " cow ") appears in the novel and film A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

A cow on the right, representing Vermont's history of dairy farming, also appears.

As a cousin of the intensely Jacobite MacLeods of Rassay, the chief, John Nicolson, appears to have assisted in the concealment of Charles Edward in a cow byre on his estates: John's descendants preserved a lock of the prince's hair, and the cup out of which he drank on his night on Scorrybreac lands.

Sometimes he appears in the shape of a cow, sometimes in that of a monster.

No cow thief could count on a jury of his sympathetic peers to free him any longer.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

Jay Gould kept a cow on one deluxer.

The cow, unlike a bull or steer, kept her eyes open and her mind on her business when chargin', and a cow `` on the prod '' or `` on the peck '' was feared by the cowhand more than any of his other charges.

In large, atmospheric panoramas of the countryside, the highlights on a blade of meadow grass, the mane of a tranquil horse, the horn of a dairy cow reclining by a stream, or the tip of a peasant's hat are all caught in a bath of yellow ocher light.

In September 2007, the UK reported its first ever suspected case of the disease, in a Highland cow on a rare breeds farm near Ipswich, Suffolk.

The " cow " derivation depends most immediately on the Old Irish legal term for " outsider :" amboue, from proto-Celtic * ambouios, " not a cattle owner.

for the Terrified, which was originally set up in Wedmore in 1999, is based in an old cow shed on the school's grounds.

A cow lying on its side

Cow tipping or cow pushing is the purported activity of sneaking up on a sleeping, upright cow and pushing it over for one's entertainment.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Self-portrait of G. K. Chesterton based on the distributist slogan " Three acres and a cow ".

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

An example of a mechanical vector is a housefly, which lands on cow dung, contaminating its appendages with bacteria from the feces, and then lands on food prior to consumption.

The cow was given to Cadmus by Pelagon, King of Phocis, and it guided him to Boeotia, where he founded the city of Thebes.

King Kartavirya Arjuna sent his soldiers to take the cow.

The cow returned to the Chola King, bellowing in fright and with blood stains all over her body.

Tom is no bigger than his father's thumb, and his adventures include being swallowed by a cow, tangling with giants, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur.

A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy and King Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill gave the judgement " To every cow belongs her calf, therefore to every book belongs its copy.

King Offa of Mercia adopted the Frankish silver standard of libra, solidi and denarii ; although for centuries English coinage was restricted to the silver penny the scilling, understood to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere, was a 12d money of account like its French equivalent, until the Tudors minted the first shilling coins.

King and Lewis established a cow camp on Santa Gertrudis Creek.

The seat of the Ya-Na ( literally translated as King of Absolute Power ), is a collection of cow skins.

The King also drew criticism when he married a teen during the period, fining himself one cow for breaking the rules.

The case was taken to King Veerappa Nayakkar, who inquired and verified the documents written by King Koo ( n ) Pandiyan and gave his verdict in the year 1573 A. D. as the Six villages and the Dargah land belongs to the Descendants of Sultans and it should be in their enjoyment till the existence of Sun and Moon and who violates this will be liable for the sin of slaughtering a cow in the bank of river Ganga.