Ring Them Bells

Date: 11/04/96

Subject of the Post: Sacred Cow reference

somebody wrote:

In Ring Them Bells Dylan wrote, "And the sun is going down upon the sacred cow." Well, if this is a literal image then it's fine. But if he is not being literal, why? The sacred cow in part of, correct me if I'm wrong, Hinduism, which is one of the largest religions on the earth. How can he complain about them being oppressed?

jh wrote:

"The sacred cow" is both literal & symbolic in the 32nd chapter of Exodus. It represents false idols of worship, religious & material, intellectual, etc. soon to fall, broken in pieces & ground to dust at the coming of the Lord, when the "four winds blow." The last idol will be Antichrist. (Concurrent with early Hinduism I believe, the cow was an object of worship in ancient Egypt.) -jh

"And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, "Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him." And Aaron said unto them, "Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me." And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a golden calf: and they said, "These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt." -Exodus 32:1-4

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