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Apis (Egyptian mythology) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Apis was originally the Ka (power/life-force) of Ptah, the chief god in the area around Memphis. |
 | | As he now represented Osiris, when the Apis bull reached the age of twenty-eight, the age when Osiris was said to have been killed by Set, symbolic of the lunar month, and the new moon, the bull was put to death with a great ceremony. |
 | | By the New Kingdom, the remains of the Apis bulls were interred at the cemetery of Saqqara. |
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