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golden calf the Israelites worshipped,
while the Prophet Moses (pbuh) was
on Mt. Sinai, was actually a replica of
the Egyptian idols Hathor and Aphis.
In his book, Too Long in the Sun, the
Christian author Richard Rives writes:
Hathor and Aphis, the cow and bull gods
of Egypt, were representatives of sun
worship. Their worship was just one
stage in the long Egyptian history of
solar veneration. The golden calf at
Mount Sinai is more than sufficient evi-
dence to prove that the feast proclaimed

An Ancient Egyptian statue of Hathor. was related to sun worship… 23
The influence of the Egyptian

pagan religion on some Israelites occurred in many different stages. As
soon as they had encountered a pagan people, this leaning towards hereti-
cal belief appeared and, as the verse maintains, they said "Moses, give us
a god just as these people have gods." (Surat al-A‘raf: 138) What they un-
wisely said to their Prophet, "Moses, we will not believe in you until we
see Allah with our own eyes." (Surat al-Baqara: 55) reveals that they were
inclined to worship a material being that they could see, as their pagan re-
ligion provided the Egyptians with.
The tendency of some Israelites to the paganism of Ancient Egypt,

that we have here outlined, is important to understand and gives us some
insight into the corruption of the text of the Torah and the origins of the
Kabbalah. When we consider these two topics carefully, we will see that,
at their source, is found Ancient Egyptian paganism and the materialist
philosophy.

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