“Cause of Mediterranean Area Desertification: Ritual Cow Slaughter”

Ben: "Having turned all of Northern Africa into a desert hell - ritual cow slaughter became the center of the ancient Egypt era"

Prabhupada, Govardhana Puja Lecture, New York, November 4, 1966: ..So in the village of that Vrndavana, the father of Krishna, foster father of Krishna, Nanda Maharaja and his associates, they were yearly performing the Indra-yajna. Because they were agriculturists, they depended on rain, sufficient rains. And he had many cows.

Nanda Maharaja was a farm man. He is agriculture and cows. The mercantile people, the vaisya community, they are recommended three things: krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam [Bg. 18.44]. Krsi means agriculture, and go-raksya means cow protection, and vanijyam means trade. So Nanda Maharaja belonged to the vaisya community.

Center of ancient Egypt era: Ritual Cow Slaughter. Same ritual what plunged the Mediterranean area into deserts is now repeated at Ritual Cow Slaughter For 2010 World Cup in South Africa

So he was well-to-do man, very rich man, and he had 900,000’s of cows. 900,000 of cows he was protecting. Formerly, according to Vedic civilization, a man was considered to be rich man in proportion of his stock of grains and livestock, cows. That’s all. Dhanyena dhanavan. A man was considered to be rich man if he has sufficient quantity of grains in his possession.

Similarly, if one has sufficient number of cows in his possession, he was considered rich man. Not that bank balance. There was no such bank, neither this paper money. They actually possessing the foodstuff and milk. And actually this is economic solution. If you have got sufficient milk, then you can make so many nice nutritious, full of vitamin values preparation and grains. There is no question of economic starvation if you have got simply grains and cows. So that was the standard of economic solution in days yore.

So they were preparing just to satisfy the demigod Indra, because he was supposed to… not supposed. Actually he supplies rains sufficiently. Without rains you cannot have successful agriculture. So they were preparing that sacrifice.