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(near Petra), where he died, is still called Jebel Hariin, or “ Aaron's Mountain.” He is called a son of Amram (“high people”), and his mother is named Yikabad (Jochebed), meaning “ Yahveh has been honoured.” He followed and tended the ark-box (see Ark). He was a bull, or sun, worshipper, who could work wonders, and made a golden calf which “came out” of the fire; so that this Hebrew (solar and lunar) legend of Moses and Aaron seems analogous to that of Krishna and his charioteer Aruna, “the tawny one” in India, At Rephidim Aaron poses (see Rivers of Life, i, p. 154, fig. 57) with his horned brother, and Hur (Khar), in a remarkable group on the mount, viewing the fight between his tribe and Amalek.