Apis - The Sacred Bull

by Günther Eichhorn

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Apis was the Sacred Bull. He is shown either as a bull or as a man with the head of a bull. He was worshiped in the Memphis region originally. The bull was the most important of the sacred animals in Ancient Egypt.

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