Cattle

When animals became fetishes, there ensued the taboos on eating the flesh of the fetish animal. At one time the cow was a fetish, the milk being taboo while the excreta were highly esteemed. 88:1.5

In the Urantia Book

Ancient use

• cattle was hunted by Neanderthalers 64:4.2
• By 5000 B.C. the Mesopotamian, Turkestan, and Chinese farmers had begun the raising of cows 81:2.12
• The first medium of exchange was a fish or a goat. Later the cow became a unit of barter. 69:4.5
• Nodites imported cattle and other domesticated animals 80:1.2
• primitive men loved cattle more than their wives 68:5.8
• Prince’s staff helped improve breeding. The cow was so improved by careful breeding as to become a valuable source of food; butter and cheese became common articles of human diet. 66:5.5
• Cattle stealing was universally punished by summary death, and even recently horse stealing has been similarly punished. 70:10.15
• it was widely used in animal sacrifices 173:1.6-7

Jesus

• Jesus’ home had three cows 123:5.15 126:3.12 126:5.11
• in the famous parable of Jesus the prodigal son is given the fatted calf to merry for his return 169:1.10

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Serpent reverence 88:1.5 — Ex 4:2-4; Ex 7:9-12; 2 Ki 18:4; Nm 21:8-9; Nm (Da 14:23-27): Bel 1:23-27; Jn 3:14.
• Snakes: voices of evil spirits 88:1.5 — Gn 3:1-5.
• The celebration 169:1.10 — Lk 15:23-24.

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Cattle is linked in 2 paragraphs of the text.

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