Golden calf
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According to the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, the golden calf or, in the Quranic account, the calf was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai. In Hebrew, the inciden
Worshiping the golden calf, as in Exodus 32:1-35, illustration from a Bible card published in 1901 by the Providence Lithograph Company
Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800
The Levites killed about 3,000 Israelites who worshipped the Golden Calf (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett).
Moses destroying the tablets (watercolor c. 1896–1902 by James Tissot)
Sacred bull
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Cattle are prominent in some religions and mythologies. As such, numerous peoples throughout the world have at one point in time honored bulls as sacred. In the Sumerian religion, Marduk is the "bull
Golden calf
…Hebrew, the incident is known as "the sin of the calf" (Hebrew: חֵטְא הָעֵגֶל, romanized: ḥēṭ hāʿēḡel). It is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus. Bull worship was common in many cultures. In Egypt, whence according to the Exodus narrative, the Israelites had recently come, the bull-god Apis was a comparable…
The Procession of the Bull Apis by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, oil on canvas, 1879
17,500-year-old cave paintings in Lascaux, France
Human-headed winged bulls from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad (Louvre)
Stele dedicated to an Apis, dating to Year 21 of Psamtik I (c. 644 BCE)