[F14 Pilot]

Holy Cow

[2banana]

Predictions - The Iranians will destroy the statues as they may take away from the worship of allah...

[Choose Ye This Day]

[pro610]

I could really go for steak after reading that.
LOL!

[RetiredArmy]

Allah was a cow?

[MeanWestTexan]

"The discovery of these sculptures indicates that the people of the region worshiped cows 3000 years ago."

Seems I already read about people of that area doing that in some book somewhere.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

From the article:

These statues are evidence that the people of the region worshiped oxen and humped cows 3000 years ago.

Well isn't that special.

[Pirate21]

These statues are evidence that the people of the region worshiped oxen and humped cows 3000 years ago.

C'mon, couldn't this have been written some other way -- at least switch the order of the animals?

[Alex Murphy]

Picture of one of the restored statues.

[fortheDeclaration]

Archaeological excavations indicate that the province has been inhabited by human beings since 400,000 years ago until the present time, and that around 5000 years ago, urbanization flourished in the area. Gohar Tepe is a proof to this claim.

Funny how scientists are always talking about hundreds of thousands of years, but it seems that the number 5,000 is the actual number they can actually prove.

Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said today.

[Puppage]

FAT COW

[Petey139]

So they worship Cows? Hmmm....I wonder if I won't go to hell then because I must of ate hundreds of cows.

[Pipe Dog]

The discovery of these sculptures indicates that the people of the region worshiped cows 3000 years ago.

Then they started to worship allah, who is lower on the scale than angels, humans or animals dung and then their culture went to shiite.

[xrp]

Sounds like the Muslims are on occupied land, then! Free Persia for the cow worshippers!

[texianyankee]

So you telling me that the ancestors of the Ayatollah Khomenei probably humped this cow?

[pobodys nerfect]

Wasn't the god they called Baal in the form of a cow or bull?

[The Brush]

A friend of mine graduated from Holy Cow High in India, he lettered in Yatzee

[ozzymandus]

Huh. Any relation to the golden calf that got Moses all PO'd?

[dfwgator]

[buwaya]

Not all that surprising. This must be a remnant of not just a pre-Islamic but a pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion.

These were a branch of those Aryans that conquered India, a cattle herding culture who had quite an appreciation for the spiritual value of cows - and they are still holy to Hindus.

And there are plenty of indications that Hindu-style beliefs were a great deal more widespread pre-Islam, some even saying that the old pre-Islamic Arabian religion was akin to it.