Golden calf God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf/bull deity through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism. Among the Egyptians' and Hebrews' neighbors in the ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El. When Moses went up into Biblical Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments (), he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights. The Israelites feared that he would not return and demanded that Aaron make them "gods" to go before them (). Aaron gathered
The Husband Who Was to Mind the House the ale, which runs all over the cellar. He got more milk to churn, but remembered that the cow was still in the barn. Since he could not take her to the meadow, he decided to put her on the sod roof. He carried the churn to keep the baby from overturning, but he went for water for the cow, and spilled all the milk down the well. It was near dinner and he hadn't any butter. He set on the water to boil for porridge, but went up to tie the cow so she wouldn't fall off, and tied