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An idol can also be an image or object of worship. The golden calf was built as an object of worship because moses took too long talking to god. The isrealites demanded a god be made for them, thus the cow, and it was a hollow substitute.
I'm not taking sides in this but the calf was very much just an object made to be worshipped because everyone got super impatient.
Not religious, just raised catholic.
It was also very much a god that was worshiped before they made the statue.
There is a difference between idolization and idolitry.
If you're talking about the bull god they worshipped in egypt, yeah that was a thing. I'm talking about the biblical allegory of the golden calf, which was just a object of worship and thus why one of the many definitions of 'Idol' is 'an object of worship.