Works of the Flesh: Idolatry

In the past few editions, we have been examining the works of the flesh as Paul describes them in Galatians 5:19-21. We have already examined three such works that more often than not refer to sexual improprieties, namely sexual immorality (or "fornication"), uncleanness (which can refer to physical uncleanness and other forms of uncleanness, but often used in a sexual context), and lasciviousness (which also can refer to other sins of excess, but often used in a sexual context). The rest of the works of the flesh described by Paul do not share in this emphasis, but refer to many of the other activities done by mankind despite the disapproval of God. Let us now examine the next such work of the flesh listed, idolatry, as seen in Galatians 5:19-20:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties...

The word translated as "idolatry" is the Greek term eidololatreia, defined by Thayer as

1) the worship of false gods, idolatry
1a) of the formal sacrificial feats held in honour of false gods
1b) of avarice, as a worship of Mammon
2) in the plural, the vices springing from idolatry and peculiar to it

The same term is used in 1 Corinthians 10:13 and 1 Peter 4:3:

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

We may see, therefore, that the term refers to the worship and esteem given to what are deemed idols as opposed to worship and esteem given to God. What, however, are these idols that are worshipped?