“ISIS” caption on verso reads “With the first dawning of written record, the cow represented the fecundity of Nature. In the age-old temples of Egypt, Isis, the moon-goddess, was worshipped in the form of a woman with a cow’s head. Decapitated by her son, Horus, the sun-god, she received from Thoth a cow’s head as a substitute. It is not unlikely that the thread of a race memory linking the moon and cows persists in the children’s rhyme of the cow jumping over the moon”. Image courtesy of Stephen Romano Gallery
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