"...Aaron said to them, "Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of
your
wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." Then all the
people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them
to
Aaron. He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool
and made it into a molten calf; and they said, "This is your god, O
Israel,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt." - Exodus 32:1-4
"...There are approximately 89 references to the god Baal in the Old
Testament (OT). Further, the OT makes reference to other Canaanite deities
including the goddess Asherah (40 times) as well as the goddess Ashtoreth
(10 times).3 In total, there appears to be about 139 clear references to
major Canaanite deities in the OT.4 In a brief survey of the passages in
which reference is made to Baal worship, such things are noted as the high
places at which Baal worship occurred within Israel (e.g., Num 22:41)5,
Israel's propensity for engaging in Baal worship at certain points in her
history (cf. Judges 2:11; 3:7; 8:33; 10:6, 10, Hosea 2:13, etc.), as well
as
the cultic practices of certain Baal prophets (cf. 1 Kings 18:25-29). ..."
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2053
"...The style of writing discovered at Ugarit is known as alphabetic
cuneiform. This is a unique blending of an alphabetic script and
cuneiform;
thus it is a unique blending of two styles of writing. Most likely it came
into being as cuneiform was passing from the scene and alphabetic scripts
were making their rise. Ugaritic is thus a bridge from one to the
other...."
http://phoenicia.org/ugarbibl.html
"...Classical sources relate how the Carthaginians burned their children
as
offerings to Ba'al Hammon. See Moloch for a discussion of these traditions
and conflicting thoughts on the matter. Such a devouring of children fits
well with the Greek traditions of Cronus. Prostitution as a form of
worship
also may have been done, especially when the Carthaginians began to
recognize Ba'al as a fertility god...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal
"...The sculpture was the artist's idea, not the city's. In an act of
"guerrilla art", he trucked it to Lower Manhattan and on December 15,
1989,
installed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift
to
the people of New York.
The police seized the sculpture and placed it into an impound lot. The
ensuing public outcry led the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation to install it two blocks south of the Exchange in the plaza at
Bowling Green. It faces up Broadway.[2]...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull
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