Dream Galaxy

Religious narrative · Water

Seven lean cows

Egypt (narrative setting) · undated (text c. 6th c. BCE)

In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed… And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine… So I awoke.

Original text — The Bible, King James Version, Various

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Source
The Bible, King James Version — Various, 1611. Genesis 41:17–21
Rights
Public domain (author died 100+ years ago)
Record type
Religious narrative
Place
Egypt (narrative setting) · Hebrew Bible, Egyptian
Date
undated (text c. 6th c. BCE)
Uncertainty
High — Religious narrative; not a historical dream report.
Imagery
River · Animals · Food · Ruler
Feelings
Unease · Confusion

How traditions have read this kind of dream

Psychological

Early dream researchers often linked water imagery to bodily sensation and mood; later psychoanalytic writers read deep water as a figure for what lies below awareness. Modern researchers treat such readings as interpretive traditions rather than findings.

cf. Havelock Ellis, The World of Dreams (1911)

Mythological

Many cosmologies begin with primordial waters — the deep of Genesis, the Babylonian Apsu, the cosmic ocean of Hindu myth — so water often stands for origins, boundaries and crossings between worlds.

Comparative mythology

Chinese traditions

In Chinese poetry water carries time and loss — “all things flow east like water” (Li Bai) — while Daoist texts praise water as soft yet enduring.

Li Bai; Daodejing ch. 8

These are cultural lenses, not a diagnosis.

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