cow-mother

English

Noun

cow-mother (plural cow-mothers)

1. (religion) A personification of a maternal cow worshipped as a goddess.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 217:

     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.