The golden calf made by Aaron and the bronze serpent made by Moses, are glitches in the orthodox Old Testament version of what occurred in "Exodus."  The incident in which Aaron forges a golden calf does not at all ring true in the sequence of the narrative of the Israelites.  Shortly before Aaron with Moses was God's chosen instrument in liberating the Israelites from Egypt. (We are not given any detailed account of Moses forging the metal serpent in scriptures.) Suddenly the chosen instrument makes an idol, according to the orthodox scriptures.  Like the sudden change in "Genesis," from the vegetarian covenant of 1: 29-30, to God preferring the sacrificed flesh of Abel over the vegetation offerings of Cain, the scriptures describing Aaron making the golden calf literally reek of revision.

  Just as the God of Genesis was schizophrenic, commanding vegetarianism, then suddenly desiring carnivorism, so too does Aaron appear schizophrenic, going from being the instrument of God to being a maker of idols (according to Jewish orthodoxy).  Let us look ahead to an analysis of another glitch or contradiction, how the God who ordered Noah to build an Arc to save all species of animals becomes a degenerate deity saying after the deluge that all creatures shall now live in fear and terror of humans.

   What more and more research is confirming is the Original Vegetarian Bible posited by Abegg, Wise and Cook in their translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  The revisers of the original Vegetarian Bible attempted a complete reversal of values: The golden calf condemned as an idol is nothing other than the sacred cow of Hinduism.  Palestine also is home of a large ancient frieze sculpture of a cow on the side of a mountain, which was a portrayal of devotion by the pure remnant of Judaism.  The editors mentioned above are colleagues of Robert Eisenman, who wrote James the Brother of Jesus, a work which delineates a suppressed Jewish vegetarian tradition that was carried on by James, Jesus and their disciples.  The writer or reviser of Psalm 106, 19-20, however, denigrates, denounces the vegetarian tradition:

"They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a molten image. They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass."
 

 The sacred cow of Hinduism is turned into the idolatrous golden calf by the cattleman cult of Judaism. A number of scholars acknowledge that the translation calf is not correct, that the calf should instead be seen as a young bull which was an acknowledged symbol of strength and virility throughout the area.  To the followers of Shiva, the bull has a definite name, Nandi. Just as the tribe of Judah, the people of Samaria, and the people of Canaan worshipped the calf or cow, so too did the original Israelites.
 

  Aaron's name in Hebrew is Aharon, which contains the Har root of Hara, which is the name of Sheva the Destroyer. His wife's name is Elisheba, a compound word comprised of two of the names of God, as are numerous Old Testament names. Eli is God and Sheba is simply a transliteration of Shiva. The reader can thereby see how Aaron aka Aharon and Elisheba and their parents who named them were devoted to Shiva, God of the Sabeans.   Moses' father is named Amram, Am-Ram, which combines the sacred Aum or Om sound with the name of Ram or Rama, a Hindu deity and hero of the epic Ramayana.
 

  The fact that Moses made the bronze or copper serpent, the Nehushtan, is not widely discussed in Judaism, because it is difficult for the orthodoxy to explain why the great liberator and author of the Torah forged an icon that orthodox Jews consider to be an idol.

   Moses made the bronze serpent, the Nehushtan, and Aaron made the golden calf, both of which are considered idols to orthodox Jews, but to the Hindus are simply icons helpful in reminding Hindus of what they worship, as are the star of David, the Cross, and the Crescent and Star for other sects. The bronze or copper serpent was a symbol of the kundalini, the serpent power of Shiva that goes up the spine.  As Joseph Campbell has shown in writings and videos, the serpent wrapped around a staff was a universal symbol of healing throughout the ancient world of the Bible. This symbol, the caduceus, has been adopted by the medical profession, though the medical profession has chosen to discard the herbal, dietary, and yogic forms of healing originally associated with it.

   Aaron lived the not uncommon life span of a vegetarian in those days. Aaron died at 123 years at a location named Har Hor, which itself is derived from the name of Shiva as Hara. Moses preached the relationship between virtue and longevity,  just as Hindus, Buddhists and Essenes. Numerous Hindu hymns, for example to Agni, report on the typical life span of the Hindu being 100 autumns, Buddha in his Dhammapada says to his congregation that they are here only for a hundred years, and Philo and Josephus and Pliny report on the longevity of the vegetarian Essenes, whom Philo says often lived to 120 years. The Essenes were also called Osseans by Epiphanius in his Panarion, and were obviously renunciate followers of Shiva as Oseo.

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days..." Moses, Deuteronomy 30: 19-20.

  Psalm 90 is marked in the Bible as "a prayer of Moses to God." Its contents are clearly a complaint by Moses on the condition of the fallen carnivorous Israelites.  They are in a state of sorrow, feeling God's anger and wrath. Moses feels empathy for them in the psalm: the pain of the fallen Israelites is also his pain.

" For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.  Thou has set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.  For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.  The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away." 7-10

"Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.  Make us glad according to the days wherein thou has afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.  Let thy work appear unto they servants, and they glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it."  13-16

   We have already seen in the page on the quails and the Israelites' craving for flesh, that Moses denounced the Israelites' craving for flesh, and that their evil craving to eat the flesh of other living beings was rewarded by a disease killing many of them.  The very fact that the Israelites craved flesh means that they had been eating vegetation in the Sinai wilderness. Amos saw clearly that the Israelites could not logically have been a flesh-eating culture in the Sinai wilderness.  And "Epistle to the Hebrews" and a number of Essene documents confirm that Moses was true to the original vegetarian covenant but that a number of Israelites were not.

   The supposed vision of Peter in "Acts" in which Peter is told to rise and kill and eat, a vision repeated twice afterwards, is likewise confirmation of the vegetarianism of the original Christians.  If Jesus had really taught that "all foods are clean" there would have been no need for the vision to be conjured by the writer of "Acts." The fact is that the Pauline contingent subverted the original teachings of Jesus to make them conformable to the teachings of Rome.