sacred cows

bodaciousbanshee:

My colleague @havamal93 was just saying that that kulning video that went viral is a rune song that is proto-germanic, that is, in his words “a double extinct language, whose grammar is mostly theoretical”. But cows and goats still respond to this singing in this forgotten language. It’s interesting, really. To think that farm animals might know languages and magic that we humans have long since forgotten. Having grown up raising an old, rare breed of Irish cattle called “dexters”, I believe it. When I was looking out over the Hill of Tara last year I could not help but think about the herding days of my childhood. I think the fact that cows are sacred in some of the oldest world religions is qutie telling. (Hathor, Ishtar, the Morrigan…a great number of old, powerful goddesses are associated with cows.)

So often we witches and polytheists focus on the more “powerful” and “mysterious” animals that we forget that the humble cow has just as much ancient wisdom as, say, the wolf or the lion.