What does the cow jumped over the moon mean?

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1. The cow jumped over the moon.

2. A cloud came over the moon.

3. Jermaine Pennant : I'm over the moon.

4. A full moon rose over the valley.

5. Female speaker I was over the moon.

6. Staff here are all over the moon.

7. Then a cloud came over the moon.

8. Lucy was over the moon with her victory.

9. And Tony is over the moon about her.

10. She's over the moon about her new job.

11. She is over the moon about the two holidays.

12. We could see the moon over the papyrus swamps.

13. The earth sometimes casts a shadow over the moon.

14. I was over the moon to get your letter.

15. They're over the moon about their trip to Japan.

16. 5) And Tony is over the moon about her.

17. When Jim courted her, Jane was over the moon.

18. 2) She's over the moon about her new job.

19. The sick cow frequently attempts urination and pulsates the urethra over the ischium arch.

20. 6) She is over the moon about the two holidays.

21. The clistressed cow frequently attempts urination and pulsates the urethra over the ischial arch.

22. The whole team were over the moon at winning the competition.

23. Slowly,(Sentencedict.com ) a full moon came up over the horizon.

24. She is over the moon about her new born baby.

25. If I found it - well, I'd be over the moon.

Nursery rhyme: Hay diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon The little dog laughed to see such fun And the dish ran away with the spoon.

All English kids know this. It's a nonsense rhyme so the date of the wedding is up to the reader's fantasy. You could look for something from Spanish kids stuff: cuando los lobitos salgan de detrás de la escoba or algo así.

Ya, pero "cuando las ranas etc." significa nunca: en inglés, "when pigs have wings", for example. No es lo mismo. No creo que quieren decir que no habrá boda.

En efecto no significa lo mismo (eso de las ranas y la vaca)...

Este verso infantil no creo que tenga equivalente en español...da la impresión de ser una canción para "irse a dormir", una canción con la que arrullana los niños. Parece metafórico el mivimiento de las vacas en la luna, que aparece en la noche.

Hola. De hecho es un típico "nursery rhyme" de los que aprendimos docenas cuando somos niñ@s. Más que para dormir, son para jugar a la comba, etc. Por cierto, la vaca no llega a "alunizar" como si de un Niel Armstrong bovino se tratara, sino que salta por encima de ella (si la luna está a punto de ponerse, sería una ilusión óptica, ¿pero quien sabe?). Total, suerte con la traducción.

I always pondered particularly at the line ‘ The cow jumped over the moon’, thinking it was just silly little nursery rhyme to pacify children who would not want to go to sleep. But in fact, there there is a theory that ‘the cow jumped over the moon’ related to the Ancient Goddess Hathor and was probably badly translated from Ancient Greek texts and put into a nursery rhyme.

I recently visited Knossos, the birthplace of the Minoan civilization. For all of you that have not heard much about this place, Knossos was the largest Minoan royal palace, situated in Crete.

The Minoans were the first major culture in Europe ( 2700 to 1450 B.C.) to worship only one God. They left behind palaces, advanced pieces of pottery, fantastic jewelry and many unsolved mysteries. Below you can see the throne room where ‘King Minos’ reigned in the palace that is famous for its Minotaur.

• The Minoan had a lunisolar calendar
• They were the first monotheist society and their god was a woman – similar to later Demeter – the Mother Earth

I undertook a tour at the famous ruins and towards the end of the tour I asked where was the famous labyrinth and the guide answered – you are standing in it – it was the palace itself. It had so many rooms that foreign visitors saw it as a labyrinth. My remaining question of course was – and where was the Minotaur?

According to legend, Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull as a sign of support and as offering to the Goddess. But Minos did not slaughter the bull but kept it instead alive. So Poseidon punished him by making Minos’ wife Pasiphae fall in love with the bull and conceive an offspring called the Minotaur, half man – half bull.

The bull was always very connected to the Minoan culture. There are still frescos preserved which show young athletes, male and female, jump over a bull. But why would a bull jump over the moon?

Babylonian calendar records exist that points to a very possible Minoan connection and suggest that the existence of the lunisolar calendar and solar and lunar phenomena were recorded more than a thousand years before the Babylonians and came from the Minoans in Crete.

A rich and seafaring civilization such as the Minoans would have had a calendar system of sorts and would have traded with Egypt, the Phoenicians and Sumerians. Furthermore, King Minos was not one person, but a title, such as Ceasar or Pharoah. So there were many King Minos and their time in office was limited to one big lunisolar cycle, lasting around 8 years. Then a new King Minos would come into office. The most likely explanation is the octagonal cycle that occurs every 8 years when Venus completes her cycle and returns in its original position at the same point in the sky. As no firm calendar records survive we can only speculate.

But it would totally correspond with the practices of other cultures, including the Mayans. They also used the Venus cycle (when the path of Venus, the Earth and the sun align) together with the lunar phases to calculate the synodic period of Venus (584 days). The ratio of the earth cycle to Venus is 8:5. So 5 Venus years and 8 Earth years coincide, making this a marker when the sky resets to its original position. This is quite significant in a time when there were no other ways of recording precise timings.

So coming back to the cow and the moon. The Minotaur most likely represented the worship of the sun and the moon. The mother goddess = nature, represented by the 8-year cycle where the Sun, the Earth and Venus perfectly aligned again – and the Moon God (represented by a bull with 2 horns showing the Waxing and the Waning Moon and the moon cycle). The monster Minotaur was most probably a ritual involving bulls and sacrifices in the palace of Knossos. This was followed by sporting events, a sort of blueprint of the later Olympic Games.

But why is the cow jumping over the moon and not the other way round? The bull-jumping has certainly something to do with it. We know that the Minoans build their palaces to align with the solstices and the winter solstice seems to have had a particular significance, as it symbolized the rebirth of the sun.

The star Orion, ‘the bull of the sky’, is visible in the Northern Hemisphere between November and February and rises over the crescent of the winter moons. Could that be the cow jumping over the moon?