There is a mythical incident in the Old Testament where worshippers of Apis [0] are slaughtered by their brothers, who had freshly declared allegiance to Jehova

There is a mythical incident in the Old Testament where worshippers of Apis [0] are slaughtered by their brothers, who had freshly declared allegiance to Jehovah. In general, the rise of monolatric religions in the Levant and Persia, religions where there are many deities but only one is worshipped, eventually turned to monotheism, where those other deities were derided and ignored. With this change, there were sweeping new priestly laws which insisted that it was blasphemous to worship those other deities. You might be interested in a critical retelling of the Exodus [1] which puts in an effort to mention and understand the other deities which were worshipped around the time of these events. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_(deity) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apis_(deity) [1] https://vimeo.com/263398514 https://vimeo.com/263398514