
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mnevis

In the News (Sun 23 Nov 08)

Lee Scott

Annika Sorenstam

Norm Coleman

Benji Madden

Freddie Mac

Puerto Rico

Vladimir Putin

Treasury Department

Mitt Romney

Giovanni Trapattoni

	REALM OF THE GODS
		The Mnevis bull was totally fl and was usually depicted with a sun-disc and ureaus between it`s horns.
		The cult of the Mnevis bull became absorbed by that of the creator-god, Ra-Atum.
		Mnevis was actually still recognized by the pharaoh, Akhenaten (1352-1336 BC) who had a cemetery prepared for the Mnevis bull in the eastern mountains of Akhetaten.
	gtae.users.btopenworld.com /godsM.htm (984 words)

	Mnewer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Egyptian mythology, Mnewer (also spelt Mnevis) was a manifestation of the Ka (life-force/power) of the chief god, Atum-Ra, in the region of Heliopolis.
		Thus, as a symbol of the sun god, Ra, the Mnevis was often depicted, in art, with a solar disc between its horns.
		A suitable bull was selected from the area, and said to be the living Mnevis bull, and was taken to a special temple, where it was worshipped, and its movement used as an oracle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mnewer (228 words)

	Mnewer - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In Egyptian mythology, Mnewer (also spelt Mnevis) was a deification of the (domesticated) bull in the region of Heliopolis.
		Because these animals were regarded as having high virility, and aggression, the Mnevis bull became a symbol of potency and unbridled power.
		As a symbol of the sun god, Ra, the Mnevis was often depicted with a solar disc between its horns.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mnevis (253 words)

	Mnevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The bull Mnevis, the Son of Ptah, and the symbol of the Sun-god Ra, as Apis was supposed to be Osiris in the sacred bull-form.
		Like Mnevis he was depicted with the solar disk between his horns, the reference being not to the cosmic energy of the spatial Deeps represented by Mnevis, nor to the lunar energy represented by Apis, but to the opening (sunrise) and the closing (sunset) of the solar system.
		The fl bull Mnevis, the son of Ptah, was sacred to the God Ra at Heliopolis; the Pacis of Hermonthis - to Amoun Horus, andc., andc., and Apis himself was a hermaphodite and not a male animal, which shows his cosmic character.
	www.experiencefestival.com /mnevis (1075 words)

	Apis
		, a sacred bull worshipped at Memphis from the earliest period, having probably been introduced into the religious system as early as the 2nd dynasty by the king Kaiechos, who instituted the worship of Apis and the bull Mnevis.
		The two bulls Apis and Mnevis are considered to have respectively represented the moon and sun, and seem both to have been buried at Memphis.
		He was supposed to have been born of a virgin cow, rendered pregnant by a moonbeam or a flash of lightning.
	www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/API/apis.html (1576 words)

	Sacred Bulls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mnevis, the scared bull of heliopolis, was also associated with Re.
		It was required that Mnevis be entirely fl, with tufts of hair on it;s body and tail.
		Buchis had to possess a white body and fl face, whereas Apis, according to Herodotus, was to be fl with the mark of a vulture on its back, a white diamond on its forehead, double hairs on its tail, and a scarab shaped mark under its tongue.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/4396/bulls.htm (373 words)

	Heliopolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blocks from this temple were later use to build the city walls of mediaeval Cairo and can be seen in some of the city gates.
		The cult of the Mnevis bull, an embodiment of the god Ra, was worshipped here, and possessed a formal burial ground north of the city.
		As the capital of Egypt for a period of time, grain was stored in Heliopolis for the winter months, when many people would descend on the town to be fed, leading to it gaining the title place of bread.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heliopolis (800 words)

	Egypt: Divine Cults of the Sacred Bulls
		Many generations of mummified Buchis bulls and their mothers were laid to rest in a designated cemetery, called the Bucheum, where the bulls were fastened to wooden boards with metal staples that held the forelegs and hindlegs in place.
		Mnevis was the sacred bull of Heliopolis, and although it was associated with the sun god Re, it has been suggested that it was also identified with Min, the fertility god of Coptos.
		However, two Mnevis burials were found in Heliopolis, both belonging to the Ramesses dynasty.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/bull.htm (1625 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.
	tarot.mysticgames.com /mythology/APIS.htm (142 words)

	Heliopolis biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There appear to have been two forms of the sun-god at Heliopolis in the New Kingdom – namely, Ra-Harakht, or Re-Harmakhis, falcon-headed, and Etom, human-headed; the former was the sun in his mid-day strength, the latter the evening sun.
		A sacred bull was worshipped here under the name Mnevis, and was especially connected with Etfim.
		The sun-god Ra was especially the royal god, the ancestor of all the Pharaohs, who therefore held the temple of Heliopolis in great honour.
	heliopolis.biography.ms (510 words)

	ANIMAL WORSHIP - LoveToKnow Article on ANIMAL WORSHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After death it was mummified and buried in a rock-tomb.
		Less widespread was the cult of the Mnevis, also consecrated to Osiris.
		Similar observances are found in our own day on the Upper Nile; the Nuba and Nuer worship the bull; the Angoni of Central Africa and the Sakalava of Madagascar keep sacred bulls.
	79.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANIMAL_WORSHIP.htm (1119 words)

	HELIOPOLIS - LoveToKnow Article on HELIOPOLIS
		There appear to have been two forms of the sun-god at Heliopolis in the New Kingdomnamely, Ra-Harakht, or Re-Harmakhis, falcon-headed, and EtOm, human-headed; the former was the sun in his mid-day strength, the latter the evening sun.
		A sacred bull was worshipped here under the name Mnevis (Eg.
		The sun-god Re (see EGYPT: Religion) was especially the royal god, the ancestor of all the Pharaohs, who therefore held the temple of Heliopolis in great honor.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HELIOPOLIS.htm (350 words)

	Meht-urtGreatFlood
		He was believed to be the incarnation of the sun and was often portrayed as a bull with a disk and the uraeus between his horns." (p.
		"The ancient Egyptian pantheon included bull, cow and calf divinities...The figures reflect the theological role of the bull-shaped god as a form of the sun god...the living Mnevis bull became the son and representative of Re." (pp.
		Below, the red disc of the sun rising from between two turquoise sycamore trees at Heliopolis (biblical On) with a white bull calf passing between the trees.
	www.homestead.com /bibleorigins*net/Meht-urtGreatFlood.html (840 words)

	elimae
		Mnevis, after becoming a disciple of Jesus, turns to authority-- represented by Veronica via Pilate--for help when Jesus falls into trouble with authority.
		The comatose Jesus is tended and watched over in the tomb--connected to the Mithran initiatory caverns--and is whisked away, by sea, to enjoy a future life with Mnevis.
		To many readers this reconstruction of the story will be both heretical and central to H.D.'s story, but it is not: this is a novel not of Jesus, but of Veronica and Fabius and his effect upon them.
	www.elimae.com /reviews/hd/wife.html (1013 words)

	Mnevis -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As one of several sacred bulls in Egypt, he was most closely associated with the sun god Re-Atum.
		Although not attested until later, the cult of Mnevis probably dated to the 1st dynasty (c.
		The Mnevis bull was either fl or piebald in colour, and in sculptures and paintings he was represented…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053098 (79 words)

	Égypte bovidés
		Contrary to this, Mnevis and Apis are of domestic bulls in origin.
		In Edfu or Dendera, Atum is sometimes described as the bull of Heliopolis, Mnevis, carrying the solar epithet (Lord of the sky or great god).
		• Akhenaton probably wanted to move Mnevis of Heliopolis to Amarna: the border stela K speaks of the planning of a necropolis for Mnevis in the East of Akhetaton but the place has not been discovered.
	www.osirisnet.net /docu/veaux/e_veaux.htm (3118 words)

	Hesat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In this earthly form, she was, dualistically, said to be the mother of Anubis, the god of the dead, since, it is she, as nourisher, that brings life, and Anubis, as death, that takes it.
		Since Ra's earthly manifestation was the Mnevis bull, the three of Anubis as son, the Mnevis as father, and Hesat as mother, were identified as a family triad, and worshipped as such.
		This article relating to an African myth or legend is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hesat (203 words)

	Sacred Bull of Apis - Swansea Heritage Net - History in pictures
		Some gods, while keeping their usual forms, were also thought to be manifest in a living sacred animal, who was regarded as the Ba or power of the god and was a cult image, herald and intermediary.
		In each of these three cases only one animal at a time was sacred, chosen for its special markings, and it could act as an oracle for the god.
		When the bull died, it was buried with all due ceremony and the next Apis, Mnevis or Buchis was brought forward to take its place." (p.14).
	www.swanseaheritage.net /article/gat.asp?ARTICLE_ID=234&PRIMARY_THEME_ID=5 (217 words)

	Sacred Egyptian Bull Mummies
		There were several such cults in Egypt, but the most important were the Apis Bull at Memphis, the Mnevis Bull at Heliopolis, and the Buchis Bull at Armant.
		It is unknown when the Mnevis cult died out; probably at sometime in the fourth century AD, along with the other bull cults.
		The Buchis cult survived until AD 362, while the cult of the Apis bull was the last to survive until the Emperor Honorius banned it and caused the destruction of the Serapeum, the cult and burial place of the bull, in AD 398.
	www.animalmummies.com /learningfiles/sacredbulls.html (608 words)

	(AEL) Egyptian Gods & Religions
		Mnevis is an originally-autonomous bull-god who becomes subordinated to the cult of Re-Atum.
		Mnevis is also the intermediary for the interpretation of oracles, a phenonmenon of Egyptian religion particularly in the later dynasties.
		According to the Greek writer Plutarch, Mnevis was runner-up to Apis in being awarded official honours.
	www.aelives.com /gods.htm (22426 words)

	Black Hunter - Amanra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In time, Amanra became a legendary mercenary and a hero with the Egyption people, aswell as a servent of Isis and Osiris.
		Amanra's commander is a man of little competence and great gith named 'Fierce Mnevis'.
		Mnevis rose in power largely through Amanra's skill in battle and her ability to speak the many Egyption languages.
	www.freewebs.com /aomblackhunter/amanra.htm (94 words)

	Mnevis: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary on Mnevis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His abode was at Heliopolis, the City of the Sun.
		He was fl and carried on his horns the sacred ureus and disk.
		Definition of Mnevis is extracted from the home page of United Lodge of Theosophists and THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY BY H. (Printed 1892).
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Mnevis/id/201213 (421 words)

	Raneb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Raneb, the second king in the 2nd Dynasty, ruled Egypt after overthrowing his brother.
		In his reign the bulls, Apis at Memohis and Mnevis at Heliopolis, and the Mendesian goat were worshipped as gods.
		He [Bôchos] was succeeded by Kaichôos (or Chôos], in whose time Apis and Mnevis and also the Mendesian goat were worshipped as gods.
	c.yorkmiller.users.btopenworld.com /pharaohs/ph0011.htm (66 words)

	Clarke's Commentary - Hosea 8
		The calf or ox, which was the object of the idolatrous worship of the Israelites, was a supreme deity in Egypt; and it was there they learned this idolatry.
		A white ox was worshipped under the name of Apis, at Memphis; and another ox under the name of Mnevis, was worshipped at On, or Heliopolis.
		To Osiris the males of this genus were consecrated, and the females to Isis.
	www.godrules.net /library/clarke/clarkehos8.htm (1329 words)

	Re
		After death, the monarch was said to ascend into the sky to join the entourage of Re.
		In Heliopolis the Benu or Phoenix (sacred heron) and the oracular Mnevis (bull) were venerated as manifestations of the sun-god.
		Here the kings also built temples for Re, which were important institutions in the field of ideology.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/r/re.html (383 words)

	e-gypt: Bulls
		Bulls were worshipped as at least three different gods, one as the god Mnevis, who's name meant `living sun-god of Re' and was worshipped in Heliopolis.
		His life was said to repeat the life of Re, and then the life of Osiris.
		The Mnevis bull was probably worshipped in predynasic times at Heliopolis, though according to tradition his cult was instituted in the Second Dynasty.
	e-gypt.sourceforge.net /online/mythology/animals/bulls.php3 (466 words)

	BarnesÂ Notes on the Bible - Vol. 02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The sense approved by most modern critics is: and he received the gold at their hand and collected it in a bag and made it a molten calf.
		The Israelites must have been familiar with the ox-worship of the Egyptians; perhaps many of them had witnessed the rites of Mnevis at Heliopolis, almost; on the borders of the land of Goshen, and they could not have been unacquainted with the more famous rites of Apis at Memphis.
		The mystical notions connected with the ox by the Egyptian priests may have possessed their minds, and, when expressed in this modified and less gross manner, may have been applied to the LORD, who had really delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
	www.biblecentre.net /comment/ot/ab/exru/exru125.html (397 words)

	Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amanra's commander is a man of little competence and great girth named Fierce Mnevis.
		Mnevis rose in power largely through Amanra's skill in battle and her ability to speak the many Egyptian languages.
		Anubis - (Egyptian) Usually depicted with the head of a jackal or as a fl dog, Anubis was associated with funerary rites.
	www.thedavisfamily.org /mythology.htm (14095 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)