Moo

Here’s a shockingly despondent verse:

And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 

Ex 32.4

It is unclear whether “they” were the Israelites, or if “they” was Aaron.

Certainly Aaron was good at making up an interesting story:

So they gave [their gold] to me,

and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.

Yeah.

Abracadabra.

But how do you all-of-a-sudden just make up a god?

A golden calf.

Makes me think of the holy cows of India.

A cow got them across the Red Sea?

Do cows even swim?

OK, Wikipedia says they do.

But do they make walls of water and lay a dry highway in between them?

Marcopedia says they don’t.