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	Egyptian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Egyptian mythology, Amset was son of Horus; guardian of the south.
		In Egyptian mythology, Duamutef was son of Horus and guardian of the East.
		In Egyptian mythology, Hapi was the personification of the Nile.
	www.nubiannews.com /nubia/egyptian.htm (806 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Egyptian Mythology
		In Egyptian mythology Buto was a goddess identified by the Greeks with Leto.
		In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet (Sakhmet) was consort of Ptah and daughter of Ra.
		In Egyptian mythology, Shu was the son of Atum and the brother of Tefnut.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/D2.HTM (1359 words)

	Serapis
		Nethertheless, the Greeks had little respect for animal-headed figures, and so a Greek statue was chosen as the idol, and proclaimed as anthropomorphic equivalent of the highly popular Apis.
		His presence in Babylon would radically alter perceptions of the mythologies of this era, though fortunately, it has been discovered that the unconnected Bablyonian god Ea was titled Serapsi, meaning king of the deep, and it is this Serapsi which is referred to in the diaries.
		The statue suitably depicted a figure resembling Hades or Pluto, both being kings of the Greek underworld, and was shown enthroned with the modius, which is a basket/grain-measure, on his head, since it was a Greek symbol for the land of the dead.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Serapis.html (639 words)

	Greek Mythology: FAMILY OF APOLLON
		ANIOS A King of Delos (in the Greek Aegean), son of Apollon and the Naxian Princess Rhoio.
		LYKOMEDES A King of Skyros (in the Greek Aegean), son of Apollon and the Samian princess Parthenope.
		PARTHENOS A Princess of the island of Naxos (in the Greek Aegean) who, according to some, was a daughter of Apollon and Khrysothemis (others say her father was Khrysothemis' husband Staphylos).
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/ApollonFamily.html (4465 words)

	Io, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		That was the third wrong, they affirm, and when the Colchians demanded the restitution of Medea, the Greeks answered that they had been refused reparation for the abduction of Io.
		And that is why they think that the Greeks did even a greater wrong when they became the first to stage a huge attack, and razed a city for the sake of a woman.
		Now, these discussions being endless, it has been firmly established by other authors that Io, who was a priestess of Hera, was not abducted by Phoenician sailors, but instead was turned into a cow and forced to leave her country and wander throughout the world, after having been seduced by Zeus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Io.html (1802 words)

	Senet and the Phaistos Disk
		Apis was greatly revered from the very beginnings of the pharaonic civilization and appears as divine already by the Second Dynasty, usually with a sun-disk prominent in his god’s crown.
		Apis was perfumed with the sweetest odors and anointed with precious unguents, and any time he appeared in public, a crowd of boys sang hymns to him because the soul of Osiris was in Apis just as it was in pharaoh.
		The Apis Bull was miraculously engendered by a moonbeam.
	www.recoveredscience.com /Phaistosebook14.htm (2279 words)

	APIS - Ancient Mythology
		Apis / Mnevis / Onuphis (who, for the sake of simplicity, we will refer to here after as Apis) was regarded as the Avatar of the god Osiris, whose soul it was said had transmigrated into the body of a bull.
		The sacred bull was allowed to live no more than years, after which it was drowned in one of the sacred wells of the Nile.
		The stigmata that marked a bull as the new incarnation of Apis / Osiris were a fl coat, a white triangular spot on the forehead, a spot like a half-moon on its right side, and a knot like a beetle under its tongue.
	www.mysticgames.com /mythology/APIS.htm (153 words)

	Apis (Egyptian mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelt Hapi-ankh), was a bull-deity worshipped in the Memphis region.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apis_(Egyptian_mythology) (1457 words)

	Zodiac Mythology
		Greek mythology states that the King of Thessaly had two children who, abused by their stepmother were rescued by a ram with a golden fleece sent by the god Hermes.
		The Latin for Cancer means Crab, and in Greek mythology the crab was sent to distract Hercules when he was fighting with the monster Hydra.
		Libra is one of the constellations of the zodiac associated with Themis, the Greek goddess of justice whose attribute was a pair of scales.
	www.rrtearoom.com /horoscope/mythology.htm (1590 words)

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		The Greeks believed that the Egyptian God Heru and Apollo were the same deities.
		Eventually this belief extended, and the Greeks believe that every hero died honorably was actually ascended to live with the gods.
		Greek moon goddess and teacher to the magicians and sorcerers or sorceresses.
	www.ladyoftheearth.com /goddesses/greek-gods-goddesses.txt (2872 words)

	Mythology and History: Chapter 4
		The preceding diagram of the northern face of the universal clock indicates the clock’s correspondence to the 12 or 14 Titans of Greek mythology, the sons and daughters of Gaia and Ouranos.
		Apis dorsata prefers to nest on the branches of the tualang tree — Asia’s tallest tree (growing up to 80 meters high, second worldwide to the California coastal redwood sequoia) and actually a member of the legume family (as in Jack and the Beanstalk?), its seeds contained in large pods.
		Her close cousin, Apis laboriosa — whose domain stretches from Nepal to Laos to China and who is the largest honey bee in the world — likewise prefers to nest on the high, remote cliffsides of the Himalayas.
	www.gravity.org /mythology/myth_iframe_4.html (17976 words)

	Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity - The Religion of Upper Egypt
		The sacred bull was called Apis in Memphis and the west of the Delta, and Amun-ehe, or as the Greeks wrote it Mnevis, in Heliopolis and the east of the Delta.
		Among the Greeks and Romans, while the priest performed the sacrifices, the philosopher wrote on duties and was the consoler of the afflicted, and the poet wrote on theology with the lives and actions of the gods.
		The wicked Typhon, as an hippopotamus, the Cerberus of the Greeks, accuses him to the judge, and demands that he shall be punished; while the four lesser gods of the dead intercede as advocates or mediators on his behalf.
	www.touregypt.net /emac3.htm (11822 words)

	Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology: Chapter III. Heracles
		The proof must be deduced from the historical facts, which I have demonstrated, the one that Greek epics originated in the Mycenaean age, and the other that the mythical cycles are constantly connected with Mycenaean sites and in their importance correspond closely to the varying importance of these sites in the Mycenaean age.
		It took place "in the Gate, among the Dead." The Greek word is νέκυς, "corpse"; this word, however, has in Homer not merely the significance of "corpse" but is used to denote "the Dead," a survival of the old primitive belief in a bodily life of the deceased.
		But the common scheme of Greek mythology always tended toward the localization of its heroes, and when a mythical hero was notably popular it is not to be wondered at that he was localized in various places, and that the localizations disagreed but in spite of this were retained.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/mog/mog13.htm (8666 words)

	The Cult of Dionysos
		Such apparently was the case in Rome during the early second century B.C.E. Men had joined with the women in secret Bacchic ceremonies held in the evening, and according to the testimony of the witness Hispala, all sorts of criminal and immoral behavior transpired under the cover of darkness.
		Apis was supposedly transformed into Osiris after death, thus gaining the kind of divine immortality which was open to the human devotees of Osiris.
		Worshipped as the incarnation of Ptah, the god of Memphis, during its lifetime, each Apis bull was mummified at death.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/gnosis/dionysos.html (2721 words)

	Greek Mythology: DEIFIED MEN & WOMEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AIAKOS A King of the Greek island of Aigina.
		She was transformed into a heifer and driven to Egypt by the jealous goddess Hera.
		There she regained her human form and was elevated to godhood as Egyptian Isis, her son by Zeus became the godling Apis.
	www.theoi.com /Cat_Apotheothenai.html (1523 words)

	Greek Mythology: FAMILY OF ZEUS (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KRONIOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.
		KYTOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.
		SPARTAIOS A Lord of the island of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean), one of three sons borne to Zeus and the Nymphe Himalia.
	www.theoi.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Olympios/ZeusFamily.html (6070 words)

	Greek Gods and Goddesses
		Greek goddess of the sea, the moon, calm, tranquility.
		Greek goddess of barley flour, destiny, and the moon.
		Greek deified stream which encircled Gaea and was the source of all water.
	www.gothikangel.com /Goddess/Greek.htm (2184 words)

	Tough Egyptian Mythology quiz -- free game
		He is an ancient jackal-headed god of the dead, in later mythology identified with Osiris.
		He is a deity of nature, associated by the Greeks with their god Pan.
		She was equated by the Greeks as the Egyptian version of Artemis.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=24852 (400 words)

	The TITANS & Greek Mythology - Atlantis Rising
		Many apparent contradictions in Greek mythology are resolved through a Biblical interpretation, The classical writers and most mythologists since have assumed they could erect a chronology of these myths merely by adding up the names of the various kings cited by the various kinglists.
		Donnelly claimed that Greek mythology is merely a remnant of Atlantean history, and he adduced voluminous evidence (which, as Donnelly's critics gleefully point out, is not all reliable) in support of the existence of Atlantis as described by Plato.
		In Greek mythology, was the abode of the gods, their home and the site of the throne of Zeus, the chief deity.
	forums.atlantisrising.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000926-3.html (16287 words)

	Greek Oracles - By John A. Valko
		Priestesses were often the oracles, and the priests typically were the people whom translated the messages into something the average Greek could understand.
		In the course of finding information about Greek oracles, there were always oracles of other cultures mixed with the information As in one city in Egypt, not only animals other than humans served as priests, but a bull served as an oracle, the Sacred Bull of Apis.
		The bull would answer yes and no, good and bad, by accepting food, it was a good sign, but if the bull refused to take the food it was a bad sign.
	members.tripod.com /~redfiter/Greek_Oracles.html (1563 words)

	Constellation Taurus
		The Bull-god Apis was worshipped in Egypt for thousands of years.
		To qualify for the honor of being an Apis-bull, a real bull must have certain markings and then be tended by the high priests.
		In early Greek mythology, Zeus falls in love with Europa, the daughter of the King of Tyre.
	www.coldwater.k12.mi.us /lms/planetarium/myth/taurus.html (749 words)

	Classical Greek & Latin
		An overview of Greek and Roman mythology from Temple University.
		This digital library of the ancient Greek and Roman world includes texts and translations, atlases, an encyclopedia, art and archaeology an historical overview of the period and much more.
		This site is based on original sources and focuses on the creative, artistic and literary aspects of Greek myths.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /index.cfm?PAGE=147 (511 words)

	Apis (Greek mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apis in Greek mythology was the king of Apia a ruler in the long line of rulers of Sicyon.
		Historically, he was most often alleged to have been killed by Aetolus.
		According to Robert Graves, Apis was accidentally ran over and fatally injured by a chariot driven by Aetolus during the funeral games of Azan, son of Arcas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apis_(Greek_mythology) (107 words)

	Apis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yamu — Another Egyptian city formerly also called Apis.
		Apis, the nickname of Dragutin Dimitrijević of the Serbian Black Hand
		Apis (One Piece), a fictional character in the Warship Island arc of the anime One Piece.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Apis (99 words)

	Classical Studies on the Internet
		Analytic Bibliography of On-line Neo-Latin Texts -- This is an analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web.
		Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes -- Access to the full text of Bulfinch's mythology; some chapters still being added.
		Greek Mythology Link -- The Greek Mythology Link is a collection of the Greek myths written and organized by Carlos Parada and is concerned with the creative, artistic, literary and inspiring aspects of the Greek myths.
	www.lib.iastate.edu /collections/eresourc/classics.html (573 words)

	Apis (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Apis (1) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		A legendary king of the Peloponnesian Peninsula; the peninsula was called Apios after king Apis.
		andquot;People, Places andamp; Things: Apis (1)andquot;, Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Apis_1.html (259 words)

	APIs - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Apis : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		APIS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include APIs: apis mellifera, apis mellifera adansonii, genus apis, apis mellifica, apis cerana, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=APIs (231 words)

	SERAPIS : The deity from Greek Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He's something of an enigmatic figure, being a Greek God worshipped by the Egyptians as part of an export deal which saw him appear in several unlikely places including Babylon.
		As there has never yet been a God that everyone can agree on, the Greeks and Egyptians cheated a little by inventing one.
		They took a statue of HADES for his good looks, mixed in the attributes of OSIRIS and APIS, added a touch of some impressive-sounding but obscure Babylonian God — and the result was SERAPIS.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=SERAPIS (226 words)

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