This seems a case of confirmation bias. I know of a rather famous ancient culture - two actually - which were hugely influential and yet don't contain (as far as I can recall) any connection between... the crescent moon and, er, cow horns?
I mean, cows are the sacred animal of Hera, but Hera isn't the moon goddess, or related to the moon at all. If such a connection were truly pervasive, we would expect to find the lunar goddess Serene (or later Artemis) to have some connection to them, but so far as I remember they don't. The closest is Artemis' twin brother (Apollo), the sun god & god of prophecy, has some sacred bulls or something.
I mean, cows are the sacred animal of Hera, but Hera isn't the moon goddess, or related to the moon at all. If such a connection were truly pervasive, we would expect to find the lunar goddess Serene (or later Artemis) to have some connection to them, but so far as I remember they don't. The closest is Artemis' twin brother (Apollo), the sun god & god of prophecy, has some sacred bulls or something.
