#Celtic#TempleThursday: The red-eared white #cow is a magical creature which features in many Irish stories, and up until 1935, still roamed the #Irish countryside. Lisa Lawrence claims it may have been the preferred animal sacrifice to appease the Gods in pre-Christian times when bad events occurred, such as when crops failed. The Goddess #Brigid is associated with cattle, and so is the Saint Brigid; as an infant, she was fed solely on the milk of a white, red-eared #cow, as she was too pure to consume regular food sources. Here, as in Corc's story, the cow is tended by a woman, but not just any woman, a pure and virtuous virgin. As Lawrence describes it, 'the white red-eared cow has ceased to nourish sacrificially devotion to the goddess Brigid, and begun to nourish symbolically devotion to Saint Brigid'.
Source: https://aliisaac.substack.com/
A cow grazing in a flowery meadow, painted in vibrant pop art wpap style. The bright colors and bold lines capture the essence of nature's beauty.
Eine Kuh, die auf einer Blumenwiese weidet, gezeichnet in einem hellen wpap Pop-Art-Stil. Lebendige Farben und kräftige Linien fangen die Essenz der Schönheit der Natur ein.
I was out with the camera a couple of days ago and the pickings were slim, so I decided to do some portrait shots from a field of calves, who were very obliging.
Seeing them designated as numbers was quite powerful for me, but their beauty shone nevertheless
Please, I don't want to get into convoluted debates about the ethics of eating meat (I choose not to).