Cows do more, though. Dogs are wonderful, but the fact a cow can work a field and give milk means pretty much ALL the food in your village is cow-dependent in your stone-to-iron age culture. It’s very symbolic that it feeds everyone without needing to die, I think. All that while being usually gentle. I don’t worship anything but I can understand how they would be seen as sacred.

It almost reminds me of the guy who picked “bears” for the higher power he believed in for AA.