Biography Apis

Apis (egip. Nari) – a sacred bull, had its own church in Memphis. According to the story Manetho cult of AA was established already in the second dynasty of the Egyptian king Kayehom (about 3600 BC X.), together with the cult of the bull in Mnevisa Gelipole Mendesskogo and goats.

The second dynasty, like the first, had a residence in Memphis, but was originally from verhneegipetskogo Fisa, where the main cult was the cult of Osiris, which is dedicated to AA, AA was originally just a living symbol of Osiris, who himself is called metaphorically "the bull pit, so what Plutarch and said that AA has inspired the image of Osiris, for the people he was in the words of Strabo, by God, the same as Osiris.

Similarly, like Osiris, AA was in a very close relationship with the Nile, this link points to is his Egyptian name of Nari, as the hieroglyphic sign for "Nile" is Nari. In addition, many will, which was supposed to have AA (Elian counts of 29), one was supposed to mean staying in the Nile water. By finding new A. dissipates in Nikopol, where and fed for 40 days.

The annual festival A., Natales Apidis, referred to the annual renewal of water in the Nile.

More than 25 years, AA was not supposed to live and after this time it's famous places we plunged into the Nile. The ratio of AA to the same Mnevisu in Heliopolis was such that although both of them, as we reasonably know, were devoted to Osiris, but the first of them was a bull of the moon, and the second bull of the sun, and some have called the first son of the second.

According to Plutarch, Alexander was carried to the light beam of the month, between the signs of him is a picture of a new month, new moon, and the sheer number 29 indicates the number of days a month, at the rising moon as the priests were sent to A.

People bulls in the Greek papyri called Ozormnevis and Ozorapis and 25 years of his life, point to the lunar period in the Egyptian solar calendar, the period in which every 25 years, well-known phases of the moon falling on the same day. AA was supposed to be black, except for a few spots, which were typical for him.

Finding a new AA celebrated throughout the country. AA also attributed the prophetic force, and in general at a later time, especially in Greek. Roman times, he attributed much of what was quite alien to its original symbolic meaning.

Introduced during the first Ptolemies in a host of Egyptian deities of Sinop, a local god of Alexandria Sarapis was to be given in connection with the ancient Memphis Osiris AG, as disgruntled Egyptian priests did not want his first take.