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To: c.hinton who wrote (84331)	4/10/2002 1:05:42 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117024

Why did Michelangelo depict Moses with horns? To me it seems Michelangelo was giving himself some artistic license, so to speak. While Moses was away on Mount Sinai, the Israelites under his brother Aaron built and worshipped a Golden Calf. When Moses returned with the ten commandments on stone tablets, his people was awestruck by him and they sort of worshipped him instead. So Michelangelo, with not a little humorous artistic license, depicted him as the top bull with fully grown horns. And here is the parody part. So angry was Moses (the top bull) at seeing the Golden Calf ( a calf, mind you) being worshipped that he had the Golden Calf destroyed and pulverized and mixed with water, and the forced his people to drink from the mixture. Well, as the legend goes, those that did worship the Golden Calf died while those that did not, survived.