Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The Golden Calf & the Hathor Cult of Sinai ?
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:30:10 -0600
On Saturday 18 September 2004 11:57, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:
> On 9/18/04 10:50 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:
> > But not instantaneously. As long as the water is moving fast, it can
> > carry a heavy powder like gold dust. Try putting some heavy powder (e.g.
> > salt) in a cup, adding water, stirring very fast, and drinking it. You
> > will find that you are able to drink it.
>
> Salt goes into solution but gold does not.
The text doesn't necessarily say they drank the gold itself. It says they
had
to drink the water that the pulverized gold went into. I really doubt
whether the author had distinctions and questions of solute chemistry in mind
when recording the event.