* Mooby the Golden Calf is a fictional character featured in Kevin Smith's films, comics and animated series — an indictment of McDonald's, Mickey Mouse and Disney overall.

It is most notably featured at Mooby fast food restaurants ( in Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II ).

Although it was only three o'clock, he stopped in at the Golden Calf.

The Golden Calf was dimly lit with shaded neon.

This proved conclusively that The Wrangler was a jinx, so he walked on down to Hurrays, an even more glorified gambling den than the Golden Calf.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

Bethel was an important centre for Jeroboam's Golden Calf cult ( which used non-Levites as priests ), located on Israel's southern border, which had been allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua, as was Ephron, which is believed to be the Ophrah that was allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua.

Moses then descended from the mountain with intent to deliver the commandments to the people, but upon his arrival he saw that the people were involved in the sin of the Golden Calf.

Exodus also deals with the first violation of the covenant when the Golden Calf was constructed ( Exodus 32 – 34 ).

Jeffrey Shaw explored the potential of VR in fine arts with early works like Legible City ( 1989 ), Virtual Museum ( 1991 ), and Golden Calf ( 1994 ).

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* The Golden Calf ( 1883 )

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Following the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, after the nation had sinned with the Golden Calf, the priesthood was taken away from the first-borns, and given to the tribe of Levites, specifically to the Kohanim, High Priest Aaron, his children, and their descendants.

The Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov had their hero Ostap Bender tell the story of the Wandering Jew's death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists in The Little Golden Calf.

* The ( presumed ) End of the Wandering Jew from The Golden Calf by Ilf and Petrov

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In 1912 he was commissioned to produce a decorative mural, a drop curtain, and more designs for The Cave of the Golden Calf, an avant-garde cabaret and nightclub on London's Heddon Street.

* Ilf and Petrov-The Little Golden Calf

" The Adoration of the Golden Calf " by Nicolas Poussin.

A famous example of Idolatry in the Old Testament is the worship of the Golden Calf.

It was also claimed that they converted to Judaism, and that they left Egypt at the Exodus to accompany Moses and the Israelites ; however, they perished on the way, either at the Red Sea, or the destruction of the Golden Calf, or at the slaughter of Korah and his followers.

At that time, one very well may conclude, that the vernal equinox also marked the sun's enterance into this constellation of the Golden Calf, the Taurus.

Bourassa and the Golden Calf: The Social Program of the Nationalists of Quebec 1900-1914 ( 1969 )

* The Golden Calf of the Old Testament, in Judaism and Christianity, is generally thought to symbolically represent the false worship of the god Mammon ( i. e., wealth ), instead of the true God of the Bible, Jehovah.

The character's death was retconned away in 1931 in the sequel novel The Little Golden Calf, where Ostap claimed that " surgeons barely saved his life.

Bender is a complex character: while displaying the traits that would befit a social parasite in Soviet official terms, he frequently seems to adhere to several Marxist tenets, and is clearly an atheist ( as revealed by bits of dialogue, most of them in The Little Golden Calf ).

The Dominican monk Jacobus de Voragine in his Golden Legend reported the legend that Mary Magdalene was betrothed to St John the Evangelist, who left his bride at the altar to follow Jesus, dismissing it as a " false and frivolous tale ".

Alexander the false prophet Aeetes, the king of Colchis and father of the sorceress Medea, possessed the Golden Fleece.

Janet and Stewart Farrar suggested this difference is due to the Golden Dawn releasing false information in the hopes of preventing its rituals being used in the correct way.

After several false starts, in 1909 two prospectors discovered the " Golden Staircase ", a rich vein of gold that led to the Dome Mine.

Douglas Hofstadter, in his Pulitzer prize winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, explains that these " Gödel-statements " always refer to the system itself, similar to the way the Epimenides paradox uses statements that refer to themselves, such as " this statement is false " or " I am lying ".

* Bathroom items: Golden Gloss Hair Shampoo, toothpaste, some shaving soap, vitamin enriched face cream, nail polish, hair remover (" Smear it on your legs "), Brillident ( for cleaning false teeth ), Dishworth's Famous Dandruff Cure, Nevermore Ponking Deodorant Spray and liquid paraffin.

In April 2000, Golden was found guilty of filing a false statement on a 1989 tax return and failing to declare $ 727, 000 in income.

However, in 1962, Rodrigues ' 1958 play Boca de Ouro ( The Golden Mouth )-the tragedy of a mobster of the illegal Brazilian animal lottery ( jogo do bicho ) known for his set of gold false teeth, hence the title-was to be adapted to the screen by leftist director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, who tried to meld Rodrigues ' moralizing streak with Brechtian social drama and American mob film.

* In 2006, American reporter Michael A. Hiltzik was suspended from posting to his blog on the LA Times ( entitled " The Golden State ") after he admitted " posting there, as well as on other sites, under false names ".

Robert Silverberg in a 2010 essay argues that the true Golden Age was the 1950s, saying that “ Golden Age ” of the 1940s was a kind of " false dawn.

In the world of Big Bang Comics, several false imprints were thought up that supposedly existed in the Golden Age and the Silver Age, to give more depth to their characters ( a ploy later used in Amalgam Comics ).

Golden Gun instructs Siu Kam to send 007 on a false lead and tells him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler.

In Book XI of " The Golden Ass " by Apuleius, we find evidence that the worship of this god was maintained in Rome at least up to the 2nd century.

An important study of this figure is James George Frazer's The Golden Bough, which traces the dying god theme through a large number of myths.

He was admitted into the Golden Dawn in March 1890 and took the magical motto Daemon est Deus inversus — translated as Devil is God inverted or A demon is a god reflected.

Writing in 335 BCE ( long after the Golden Age of 5th-century Athenian tragedy ), Aristotle provides the earliest-surviving explanation for the origin of the dramatic art-form in his Poetics, in which he argues that tragedy developed from the improvisations of the leader of choral dithyrambs ( hymns sung and danced in praise of Dionysos, the god of wine and fertility ):

Here in the sacred grove of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts.

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices which have influenced the 20th century.

The Golden Age Hawkman was also gifted by the sea god Poseidon with the ability to breathe underwater.

In Oisín in Tir na nÓg, his most famous echtra or adventure tale, he is visited by a fairy woman called Níamh Chinn Óir ( Niamh of the Golden Hair or Head, one of the daughters of Manannán Mac Lir, a god of the sea ) who announces she loves him and takes him away to Tir na nÓg (" the land of the young ", also referred to as Tir Tairngire, " the land of promise ").

Crowley replaced the C in Abracadabra with an H, which the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in their Neophyte ritual linked with Breath and Life as well as with the god Horus.

The anthropologist Sir James Frazer compared these " dying god " myths in his multi-volume work The Golden Bough.

Author E. Nesbit was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and was knowledgeable about ancient religions ; she may well have been aware that there was indeed an ancient deity named Nesbit: this was the Egyptian god of the fifth hour of the day.

Golden and turquoise visions of the powerful snake god Quetzalcoatl adjoin primitive pictographs in which a buzzard and a skull, suggesting death, are carried on the backs of kneeling figures.

* Golden Horus-Netjeretkhau-Divine of appearance ( Netjer means ' god ', r ' towards ' or ' at ' and khau, ' appearance ')