The Golden Calf
(media.greatawakening.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (33)
sorted by:
If it were baal, it would not be gold, maybe bronze?
They were fresh off the Exodus with a bunch of Egyptian gold which is why I assume they went that way with it
But the issue for me is that then they couldn't worship baal. Becuase baal worship required a specific kind of child sacrifice where they would place the child on baals hands. Baal would be heated so that the kid would be fried or boiled to death.
Thats Moloch. Baal worship didn't involve that type of sacrifice.
I'm inclined to think this was Baal esp after having studied the Ugaritic mythology they would have encountered in Canaan and before. Baal was just the Bullgod, also known as the rider on the storm or he who rides the clouds.
There are specific passages in the Ugaritic tablets that decry child sacrifice even. Not saying Baal is good just that it's different but similar deities
Oh thanks I must have been mistaken