This figure's death was mourned by a sixty-day period during which subjects had to shave their heads and only eat vegetables. Figures similar to this figure which were worshiped in a similar way included Mnevis and Bakh. After he was found, this figure could only be approached by women for forty days while feeding at Nilopolis. Kakau instituted the worship of this figure, who was conceived when his mother was struck by a moonbeam or a flash of light. He was identified by twenty-nine signs, including a scarab under his tongue and an eagle on his flank. The pharaoh was depicted destroying cities as this deity in the Narmer Pallette. Thought to be the ka of Ptah, this figure would be drowned if he lived more than twenty-eight years; after that period, a new incarnatio
This figure's death was mourned by a sixty-day period during which subjects had to shave their heads and only eat vegetables. Figures similar to this figure which were worshiped in a similar way included Mnevis and Bakh. After he was found, this figure could only be approached by women for forty days while feeding at Nilopolis. Kakau instituted the worship of this figure, who was conceived when his mother was struck by a moonbeam or a flash of light. He was identified by twenty-nine signs, including a scarab under his tongue and an eagle on his flank. The pharaoh was depicted destroying cities as this deity in the Narmer Pallette. Thought to be the ka of Ptah, this figure would be drowned if he lived more than twenty-eight years; after that period, a new incarnation of this god would be found from a herd of bulls. For 10 points, name this Egyptian bull deity who was merged with Osiris into the god Serapis.
This figure's death was mourned by a sixty-day period during which subjects had to shave their heads and only eat vegetables.
{Apis}