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

CHAPTER I.

THE COW AND THE BULL.

SECTION I.--THE COW AND THE BULL IN THE VEDIC HYMNS.

SUMMARY.

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-cow...