Anthropomorphic statues of the god Apis #shorts

Anthropomorphic statues of the god Apis #shorts The statue depicts the god Apis with a human body and a bull’s head. The bull Apis was one of the most important deities of Ancient Egypt, and his cult dates back to the first dynastic periods. He was mainly venerated in Memphis, where he was linked to the god Ptah, as his living image and the manifestation of his “glorious soul”. Only one sacred bull Apis existed on earth as the hypostasis of the god Ptah, born of a virgin cow united with the god Ptah, and he lived within his temple. the Greek historian Herodotus recounts was killed at the age of 25 When dead, the bull Apis united with the god Osiris in the form of Osiris-Apis and was buried at Saqqarah, in the so-called Serapeum, inside a gigantic stone sarcophagus, embalmed and endowed with rich grave goods.
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