Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)

· 1913

Prelude.--The vault of Heaven as a luminous cow.--The gods and goddesses, sons and daughters of this cow.--The vault of Heaven as a spotted cow.--The sons and daughters of this cow, _i.e._ the winds, Marutas, and the clouds, Priçnayas.--The wind-bulls subdue the cloud-cows.--Indras, the rain-sending, thundering, lightening, radiant sun, who makes the rain fall and the light return, called the bull of bulls.--The bull Indras drinks the water of strength.--Hunger and thirst of the heroes of mythology.--The cloud-barrel.--The horns of the bull and of the cow are sharpened.--The thunderbolt-horns.--The cloud as a cow, and even as a stable or hiding-place for cows.--Cavern where the cows are shut…

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