You can slice the symbolism with a butter knife
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I mean, you've got your bull markets, and your bear markets. That's the ebb and flow of life.
A bear sculpture somewhere in the neighborhood would balance the reality...! They do it in Frankfurt, after all:
And this just didn't have the same panache:
http://tribecacitizen.com/2014/05/05/seen-heard-the-trash-bag-teddy-bear-has-arrived/
According to the Hebrew Bible, the golden calf (עֵגֶּל הַזָהָב ‘ēggel hazâhâv) was an idol (a cult image) made by Aaron to satisfy the Israelites during Moses' absence, when he went up to Mount Sinai. In Hebrew, the incident is known as ḥēṭ’ ha‘ēggel (חֵטְא הַעֵגֶּל
or "The Sin of the Calf". It is first mentioned in Exodus 32:4.
Bull worship was common in many cultures. In Egypt, whence according to the Exodus narrative the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was a comparable object of worship, which some believe the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness;[1] alternatively, some believe the God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf/bull deity through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism. Among the Egyptians' and Hebrews' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El.
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As adoration of wealth
A metaphoric interpretation emphasizes the "gold" part of "golden calf" to criticize the pursuit of wealth.
This usage can be found in Spanish[17] where Mammon, the Gospel personification of idolatry of wealth, is not so current.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_calf
Guide books say that the sculpture, the bull, represents both the strength and the unpredictability of the market.
Interestingly, it's not city property and was dropped there by the artist as an act of Guerrilla Art on December 15, 1989.
Since New York City does not own the sculpture, it has a technically temporary permit allowing it to stand on city property.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull
You asked for a dancing bear?
From Wikipedia:
As a god worshipped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites, Moloch had associations with a particular kind of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents. Moloch figures in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the Book of Leviticus as a form of idolatry (Leviticus 18:21: "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch" . In the Old Testament, Gehenna was a valley by Jerusalem, where apostate Israelites and followers of various Baalim and Caananite gods, including Moloch, sacrificed their children by fire (2 Chr. 28:3, 33:6; Jer. 7:31, 19:2–6).
Moloch has been used figuratively in English literature from John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) to Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1955), to refer to a person or thing demanding or requiring a very costly sacrifice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch
"They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven!" Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Can't get any better illustration of a plutocracy, than that picture. To protect and serve Mammon.
doesn't it.
gold and you'll understand what a false god it really is.
Where is God when you need him?
