Chapter 15m - Holy Cow and Supreme GOD
Introduction
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Most people think that the Hindus do not eat
beef because the cow is a GOD.
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But there’s more to this situation that I
will explain further.
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Another thing is that most of the Supreme
GODs between India and Europe have a connection with the cow/bull.
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It is interesting to find out that the Greek
alphabet actually was not from Greece itself?
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And how the continent of Europe got its name?
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The Greeks, Romans and Danish all worshipped Krishna
as Pan/Herakles/Satyr.
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The Greek Heliodorus was a worshipper of Vishnu/Krishna.
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The Greeks it seems had a special connection
with Lord Krishna.
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All the Supreme GODs are the SAME!
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Hope the reader enjoys this chapter.
Zeus and Europa (Greek)
The story of Europa and Cadmus is found in Greek mythology. They were the children of the king of a land called Phoenicia, which is modern day Lebanon.
The GOD Zeus fell in love with Europa and wanted to take her away from her family to live with him.
One day while Europa was
wandering amongst her father’s herds of cattle she saw a white bull. She was
not aware that Zeus had turned himself into the bull in order to
trick her.
After she climbed on his back he quickly
jumped into the sea and carried her away from her homeland.
Europa’s father was heartbroken and sent her
brother Cadmus to find her and bring her home. Cadmus sailed over the sea and
eventually arrived in Greece. He never did find his sister, but it was Cadmus
who brought the alphabet to the Greeks.
The continent of Europe
got its name from the princess Europa. https://historia.europa.eu/en/our-work/news/myth-europa#:~:text=The%20God%20Zeus%20fell%20in,in%20order%20to%20trick%20her.
Zeus is the Supreme
GOD of the Greek Pantheon.
Zeus and IO (Greek)
Zeus sees the GODDESS
IO and falls madly in love with her. Zeus turned himself into a cloud,
surrounded her and made love to her.
His wife Hera
found out about this and was mad. She turned the IO into a white
cow to punish her.
IO as a cow wandered from place to place and eventually ended up in Egypt.
Zeus finally changes IO back to human form.
IO then bore Zeus a son, Epaphus, and a daughter, Keroessa.
Epaphus
supposedly founded the city of Memphis, Egypt.
Keroessa mated
with Poseidon and had a son Byzas who founded the town Byzantium, Turkey (future
Constantinople). https://www.greeka.com/greece-myths/io-zeus/
Note: There are several versions of this
story.
Ammon Ra (Egyptian)
Mnevis bull – Ra in Heliopolis
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6534/apis-bull/
Apis bull – Ra in Memphis
Ra was worshiped at Heliopolis (city of Iunu - “city of the sun god”) in the form of the Mnevis bull, the living embodiment of Ra, comparable to the better-known Apis bull. https://www.worldhistory.org/Ra_(Egyptian_God)/
Worship of the Apis bull (in Memphis) is recorded as early as the Predynastic Period (c. 6000 BCE - 3150 BCE). It is thought that Apis may be the first GOD of Egypt or, at least, among the first animals associated with divinity and eternity. https://www.worldhistory.org/Apis/
He was originally a god of fertility,
then the herald of the god Ptah (Enki) but, in time, was considered Ptah
incarnate. He was also, in some eras, depicted as the son of Hathor and was
closely associated with her goodness and bounty.
Ra was the Supreme
GOD of the Egyptian GODs.
Looks like Ammon Ra was worshipped as
a bull!
Teshub - Central Anatolia (Turkey)
8,000 B.C. The
sacred bull of the Hattians, whose elaborate standards were found at Alaca
Höyük alongside those of the sacred stag, survived in Hurrian and Hittite
mythology as Seri and Hurri ("Day" and "Night"), the bulls
who carried the weather god Teshub on their backs or in his chariot and
grazed on the ruins of cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_bull
Teshub is Zeus. So
Teshub is the Supreme GOD of the Hittites.
A Zoroastrian mythological bovine,
Hadhayans is a gigantic bull so large that it could straddle the
mountains and seas that divide the seven regions of the earth, and on whose
back men could travel from one region to another. In medieval times, Hadhayans
also came to be known as Srīsōk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_bull
Ahura Mazda is
the Supreme GOD in Iran (Persia).
"Ahura" means "Lord" and "Mazda" means "wisdom".
Zeus Oromasdes is the Greek name given to the Roman GOD Jupiter Dolichenus, who was originally a local Hittite-Hurrian GOD (Teshub) of fertility and thunder.
Under Achaemenid rule, Jupiter
Dolichenus was identified with Ahura Mazdā and became a god of the
universe.
Greek historians like Herodotus noted this connection, observing how the Persians essentially referred to the entire sky as "Zeus”.
Nemrut Dag, Turkey
A 2,134 m high mountain in Turkey that
is known for its large statues at the summit, including a carved stone head of Zeus-Oromasdes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Nemrut_mountain_and_blue_sky.jpg
So Zeus = Zeus-Oromasdes
= Ahura Mazda.
https://www.cyruscrafts.com/blog/information/ahura-mazda-the-god-of-zoroastrian
Iranian worshipers of Zoroastrianism
Shiva - Aryan/Hinduism
https://www.instagram.com/hindu_godshiva/p/Cvrau4UA5Mi/?img_index=hindu_godshiva
Shiva’s bull
is Nandi
Hindu GOD Shiva has a mount which
is a bull. This bull is called Nandi.
If you see a Shiva Lingam or a Shiva
statue, then Nandi is within feet away from and always watching over.
Nandi is not a GOD.
Shiva is the Supreme
GOD of the Hindu pantheon of GODs.
Pay attention to the Trident he carries,
and a Cobra close by and there should be a Crescent Moon next to his head (not
in the painting above).
Krishna - Aryan/Hinduism
https://www.freepik.com/premium-ai-image/man-smoking-pipe-smoking-cigar-with-bull-background_232984937.htm
Krishna
playing his flute on his family’s farm
Krishna was raised by foster parents Nanda and Yashoda who were cowherds. Krishna loved to watch his foster mother feed the cows and milk the cows. He also played the flute to the cows.
Krishna’s childhood love for the animal could be one contributing factor to the Hindus’ veneration of the cow. And Krishna thus, is a cowherd like a shepherd would be in the Mediterranean.
Krishna is known as Lord Pan and Herakles in Greece/Rome, Styr in Denmark.
The Greeks it looks like also had Krishna in their worship as seen by the mosaic found in a destroyed Hindu/Aryan temple Corinth, Greece. (see below)
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=742657975846700&set=a.306046219507880
The city of Corinth in Greece had been in ancient times a prominent center of Vedic culture with several of its temples dedicated to Lord Krishna.
A large mosaic of a young Lord Krishna playing the flute, standing cross-legged under a tree while grazing cows hangs in the museum in Corinth. It was obviously salvaged from a local Krishna temple ravaged and converted into a church by Christian invaders.
Note: Christians worked very-very hard to destroy
every evidence of the Aryan/Hindu religion when they were creating and
promoting a new religion called Christianity. Very similar to Communism where
they also destroyed the past to create a new future for the subjugated citizens
https://romaisrama.blogspot.com/2014/09/
Greek statue of Lord
Krishna at public square in Naples, Campania, Italy
https://romaisrama.blogspot.com/2014/09/
Satyr Playing Flute at Ørstedsparken in
Copenhagen, Denmark
There is a connection between the Krishna
– the Greeks – Christianity which I will cover in a future chapter.
Why Hindus may avoid
eating beef?
The Europeans do not eat their Horses do
they? For the same reason Hindus do not eat beef.
The reason being that in Europe, the horse is a work animal;
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The
horse will plow the field to grow crops.
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The
horse provides transportation.
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The
horse can pull/move heavy loads.
Now for the same reasons and more, the
Hindus respect the cow/bull;
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The
cow/bull will plow the field to grow crops.
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The
cow/bull provides transportation.
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The
cow/bull can pull/move heavy loads.
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The
cow provides milk.
· Milk can be made into yogurt.
· Milk can be made into cheese.
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The
cow dung can be dried and used as fuel in dry/arid lands where there are little
trees.
So, this is the reason why the cow is
revered by the Hindus.
Conclusion
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The
Hindus respected the cow because the cow/bull was a work animal. The cow also
supplied milk-based food such as yogurt, butter, cheese and ghee.
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I
showed how the Supreme GOD in 5 different cultures have a bull
associated with them.
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So,
the concept of the sacred cow/bull is not really just a Hindu thing.
Heliodorus, a Greek votary of Krishna, hails Vasudeva (another name for Lord Krishna) as "the God of Gods" on his Garuda pillar constructed in 113 B.C. Still present in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh (central India), this stone column also contains the inscription: "Three immortal precepts (footsteps), when practiced lead to heaven: self-restraint, charity, consciousness."
Agathocles, an Indo-Greek king of ancient Bactria (present-day northern Afghanistan), coined silver drachmas around 185 B.C. displaying Balarama and Krishna, the two heroic brothers of the Yadava clan.
Therefore, the knowledge of Krishna and scriptures like Bhagavad Gita (where he reveals himself as the Supreme Lord) already permeated the consciousness of Greeks centuries before Christ. https://romaisrama.blogspot.com/2014/09/
The ruthless destruction of classical paganism followed Constantine’s adoption of Christianity as the empire's only lawful religion.
This explains why we find very few traces of Vedic gods in Europe's pagan artifacts, and when we do, we tend to shrug them off as anomalies.
Nonetheless, the significance of Krishna being venerated as the god of all nature's creatures by Greeks should be our main focus.
Since Krishna was a universal deity in Rome and Greece, it becomes easier for us to comprehend why Rama was an esteemed personality in Etruscan civilization. https://romaisrama.blogspot.com/2014/09/
Greek ambassador Heliodorus was
so fond of Lord Krishna that he created multiple Garuda
banners dedicated to lord Krishna.
The exact inscription on the Garuda-column
(above) can be translated as;
"This Garuda-column of Vasudeva
(Visnu), the God of Gods, was erected here by Heliodorus, a
worshipper of Visnu, the son of Dion, and an inhabitant of Taxila, who
came as Greek ambassador from the Great King Antialkidas to King Kasiputra
Bhagabhadra, the Savior, then reigning prosperously in the fourteenth year of
his kingship."
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