Meanings
nouncow-mother (plural cow-mothers)
plural cow-mothers
- lifestyleA personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.
A new generation has appeared, and the universal feminine is expressed not so much as Hathor, the cow-mother, but as Isis, the wife and consort.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217
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