Sacred Cow (Larry Niven And Steven Barnes Story)
Sacred cow(s) may refer to: *Sacred cow (idiom), something considered (perhaps unreasonably) immune to question or criticism Religion and mythology *Cattle in religion and mythology, object of reverence, including: **Sacred bull, including ancient religions **Bull of Heaven in Sumerian mythology **Auðumbla and Gavaevodata, the primeval cows of Norse and Zoroastrian mythology **Tauroctony, the ritual bull-slaying of Mithraism **Red heifer, a sacred sacrifice in Judaism **Apis (Egyptian mythology), Apis, the Egyptian sacred bull Arts and entertainment *Sacred Cow (album), ''Sacred Cow'' (album), by Geggy Tah, 1996 *''Sacred Cows'', an album by the Swirling Eddies, 1996 *Sacred Cow (Bob's Burgers), "Sacred Cow" (''Bob's Burgers''), a 2011 TV episode *Sacred Cow Productions, an American film company *Sacred Cow Films, a beneficiary of South Australian Film Corporation's 2009 FilmLab initiative *''Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World'', a 2015 boo ...
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Sacred Cow (idiom)
Sacred cow is an idiom, a figurative reference to cattle in religion and mythology. A figurative sacred cow is a figure of speech for something considered immune from question or criticism, especially unreasonably so. This idiom is thought to originate in American English, although similar or even identical idioms occur in many other languages. Background The idiom is based on the popular understanding of the elevated place of cows in Hinduism and appears to have emerged in America in the late 19th century. The reverence for cows in the traditionally agrarian Vedic Hindu society stems from the reluctance to harm an animal whose milk humans consume after being weaned off the mother's milk. In Jewish tradition, there is a similar moral stigma against cooking veal (calf meat) in cows milk. A literal sacred cow or sacred bull is an actual cow or bull that is treated with sincere respect. One writer has suggested that there is an element of paradox in the concept of respect for a ...
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