. The Mythology of all races .. . f the Apis bulls and oftheir mothers, who had be-come sacred through thedivine birth, were found byA. Mariette in 1851. Soonafter the seventy days^ ofmourning over the loss ofthe god, a new Apis calf wasdiscovered by the priestswith suspicious promptness.^ Next in reputation was the Mnevis (Egyptian Nem-uer,Great Wanderer), the sacred animal of Heliop-olis, who wasexplained as the living sun-god Re or the (living) repro-duction of Re and also of Osiris. His name reveals theearly comparison with celestial phenomena. He was a blackand white bull, somewhat simila

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. The Mythology of all races .. . f the Apis bulls and oftheir mothers, who had be-come sacred through thedivine birth, were found byA. Mariette in 1851. Soonafter the seventy days^ ofmourning over the loss ofthe god, a new Apis calf wasdiscovered by the priestswith suspicious promptness.^ Next in reputation was the Mnevis (Egyptian Nem-uer,Great Wanderer), the sacred animal of Heliop-olis, who wasexplained as the living sun-god Re or the (living) repro-duction of Re and also of Osiris. His name reveals theearly comparison with celestial phenomena. He was a blackand white bull, somewhat similar to Apis. In later times theblack sacred bull of Montu, which was called Bekh or Bokh(the Baxc^, Ba/c^t?, or, better, Bovxc<i, of the Greeks) at Her-monthis,^ was likewise called the living soul of Re or ofOsiris (whence he also took the name Osorbuchis); he is pic-tured much like Apis. Regarding the (white?) bull of Min(p. 139), the cow of Momemphis, the bull (perhaps of Osiris-Horus) at Pharbaethos,^° etc., we know Fig. 168. BucHis 164 EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY

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