Apis

Bull god. Egyptian. The living personification of the creator god PTAH in Memphis, he acts as an intermediary between the supreme god and mankind. His mother is ISIS, who engendered him in a lightning flash. The bull is depicted as wholly black apart from a small white triangle on the forehead, and it bears vultuze wings. Between its horns are surmounted the sun disc (or, in later times, the moon) and the uraeus (snake symbol).

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