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... , in the city of our God. God has established it forever." "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness, increasing the joy of the whole earth." "There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the holy place of the ... ...
... their golden earrings and created a cow idol out of the gold as an altar to Yahweh.26 To take on an idol was considered a sin. Upon Moses decent from the mountain, he was confronted with the people worshipping the gold idol. Moses grew angry and smashed the tablets that held the Ten Commandments on the ground. After great obstacles, Moses went ... ...
... pursuing Egyptians all drowned in the Red Sea. The Israelites wandered through the wilderness. God continually provided food and water. When they reached Mount Sinai, God met Moses on the mountain. The people had Aaron make a golden calf for them to worship and say that it brought them out of Egypt. Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go down, because ... ...
... the deities had pacified the land, the Goddess of the Sun dispatched Japan's first ruler from the heavens to the earth. Descending from the Floating Bridge of Heaven to the mountain tops, he built his palace. Eventually he met a beautiful young woman, Princess Brilliant Blossoms, and asked her to marry him. She deferred to her father's judgment, and her father gave ... ...
... -gods". There were also gods who were associated with Upper and Lower Egypt. For example, Amentet was the goddess of the West and Meretseger was the goddess of the mountain that dominates the Valley of the Kings and Queens. The gods and places tended to get mixed up easily through the association of Amun with Re. Horus is an example ... ...
... . Lao Tzu was a royal librarian. After years of study he became enlightened and decided to retreat from society, traveling far to the West on a water buffalo. Upon reaching the distant mountain passes, Lao Tzu met the Keeper of the Pass, Wen-Chih. Wen-Shih convinced Lao Tzu to right down his insights and thus was born the Tao Te Ching, a book ... ...
