This deity was viewed as the ka of Ptah and was worshipped at Memphis.
The Greeks identified this deity by the name Epaphus and this god was often depicted with a uraeus snake. During Roman times, a lictor was assigned to guard this deity and Julian the Apostate reinstated this god's cult. The festival of deity was being celebrated when Cambyses returned from an abortive and cannibalistic campaign against the Ethiopians, resulting in Cambyses stabbing this deity in the thigh. This deity's mother was left unable to bear any other children after this god was born, and he was conceived when a lightning strike impregnated her. Psammiticus was responsible for constructing a temple to this deity, whose worship was instituted by Kakau. Having double hair of his tail and a likeness of an eagle on his side, this god held a scarab under his tongue and was covered in black skin with a diamond mark on his forehead. This deity was viewed as the ka of Ptah and was worshipped at Memphis. Picked from a herd of bulls, for ten points name this Egyptian bull deity, who was combined with Osiris to form the god, Serapis.
The Greeks identified this deity by the name Epaphus and this god was often depicted with a uraeus snake.
Apis