Only two of these species have been truly domesticated, one ( Apis mellifera ) at least since the time of the building of the Egyptian pyramids, and only that species has been moved extensively beyond its native range.

Telethusa despaired, but was visited in the middle of the night by the Egyptian goddess Isis, attended by Anubis and Apis, who assured her that all would be well.

A later story, that Bagoas was an Egyptian and killed Artaxerxes III because he had killed the sacred Apis ( Aelian, Var.

In Egyptian mythology, Apis or Hapis ( alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh ), is a bull-deity that was worshipped in the Memphis region.

The cult of the Apis bull started at the very beginning of Egyptian history, probably as a fertility god connected to grain and the herds.

The Apis bull is unique as he is the only Egyptian deity represented solely as an animal, and never as a human with an animal's head — perhaps, because from the earliest of Egyptian religious practices, they were animals sacrificed to the cow goddess and represented the resurrected, renewal of life ( Hapy and later Osiris ).

Ramesses II initiated Apis burials in what is now known as the Serapeum, an underground complex of burial chambers at Saqqara for the sacred bulls, a site used through the rest of Egyptian history into the reign of Cleopatra VII.

) Unlike the cults of most of the other Egyptian deities, the worship of the Apis bull was continued by the Greeks and after them by the Romans, and lasted until almost 400 A. D.

* The Virtual Egyptian Museum: Apis

* Apis, an Egyptian bull god

Some belong to Apis mellifera intermissa but others are having an indeterminate origin ; the Egyptian honeybee ( Apis mellifera lamarckii ), present in small numbers in the southeastern United States, has the same morphology.

Animal worship of the kind found in the Egyptian Apis cult is unknown in Greece.

Statue of Apis ( Egyptian mythology ) | Apis, Thirtieth dynasty of Egypt | 30th Dynasty, Louvre.

It is a typical Roman sanctuary, on a raised platform and with a row of columns at the entrance, where a mosaic representing Apis in a typically Egyptian manner can still be seen.

This statement shows that Egyptian myths were mixed up with the story of Apis, see Apis ( Egyptian mythology ).

Ancient Egyptian cattle came to be considered so important that many Egyptian gods were considered to have the form of cattle, notable deities being Hathor, Ptah ( as the Apis Bull ), Menthu ( as the Bukha bull ), and Atum-Ra ( as the Mnevis Bull ).

The Egyptian pantheon was especially fond of zoomorphism, with many animals sacred to particular deities — cats to Bastet, ibises and baboons to Thoth, crocodiles to Sebek and Ra, fish to Set, mongoose, shrew and birds to Horus, dogs and jackals to Anubis, serpents and eels to Atum, beetles to Khepera, bulls to Apis.

Thus Osiris was identified explicitly with Apis, really an aspect of Ptah, who had already been identified as Osiris by this point, and a syncretism of the two was created, known as Serapis, and depicted as a standard Greek god.

" Upon her Isis ' brow stood the crescent moon-horns, garlanded with glittering heads of golden grain, and grace of royal dignity ; and at her side the baying dog Anubis, dappled Apis, sacred Bubastis and the god who holds his finger to his lips for silence sake.

Sheshonk also ordered the building of a new shrine for the god Apis, especially devoted to funeral ceremonies in which the bull was led to his death to be ritually mummified.

In 1941, the archaeologist Ahmed Badawy discovered the first remains in Memphis which depicted the god Apis.

He was entitled " the renewal of the life " of the Memphite god Ptah: but after death he became Osorapis, i. e. the Osiris Apis, just as dead humans were assimilated to Osiris, the king of the underworld.

Apis was originally the Herald ( wHm ) of Ptah, the chief god in the area around Memphis.

The Apis was a god to be venerated for his excellent kindness and for his mercy towards all strangers.

Also, according to Tacitus, Serapis ( i. e. Apis explicitly identified as Osiris in full ) had been the god of the village of Rhacotis, before it suddenly expanded into the great capital of Alexandria.

A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria.

The Apis bull was worshipped as the incarnation of Ptah, creator of the universe, city god of Memphis and the patron deity of craftsmen.

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Mambres then devised a plan to appoint the white bull as the new bull god Apis, and sent four magical animals, a raven, she-ass, dog, and dove to deliver a letter to the High Priest of Memphis, so that the priests could come and worship the new bull.

Mambres then told the king that the bull needed to stay alive until another suitor had been found for the bull god Apis.

* Apis ( god ), an Egyptian god

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

The variety produced by honey bees ( the genus Apis ) is the one most commonly referenced.

Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the bee hive of honey bees of the genus Apis.

His great crime is the killing of the Apis bull, for which he is punished by madness, in which he commits many other crimes, kills his brother and his sister, and at last loses his empire and dies from a wound in the thigh, at the same place where he had wounded the sacred animal.

is abundant and among the Hymenoptera, honey bees ( Apis dorsata and A. cerana ) and the stingless bee genus Trigona spp.

There is only one fossil species documented from the New World, Apis nearctica, known from a single 14-million-year old specimen from Nevada.

* Apis dorsata, the giant honey bee, is native and widespread across most of South and Southeast Asia.

* Apis dorsata binghami, the Indonesian honey bee, is classified as the Indonesian subspecies of the giant honey bee or a distinct species ; in the latter case, A. d. breviligula and / or other lineages would probably also have to be considered species.

The reddish Koschevnikov's bee ( Apis koschevnikovi ) from Borneo is well distinct ; it probably derives from the first colonization of the island by cave-nesting honey bees.

Apis cerana, the Eastern honey bee proper, is the traditional honey bee of southern and eastern Asia, kept in hives in a similar fashion to Apis mellifera, though on a much smaller and regionalised scale.

It has not been possible yet to resolve its relationship to the Bornean Apis cerana nuluensis and Apis nigrocincta from the Philippines to satisfaction ; the most recent hypothesis is that these are indeed distinct species but that A. cerana is still paraphyletic, consisting of several good species.

Apis mellifera is not native to the Americas and therefore were not present upon the arrival of the European explorers and colonists.

While the sting can also penetrate the flexible exoskeletal joints in appendages of other insects ( and is used in fights between queens ), in the case of Apis cerana defense against other insects such as predatory wasps is usually performed by surrounding the intruder with a mass of defending worker bees, who vibrate their muscles so vigorously that it raises the temperature of the intruder to a lethal level.

The details of the signalling being used vary from species to species ; for example, the two smallest species, Apis andreniformis and Apis florea, dance on the upper surface of the comb, which is horizontal ( not vertical, as in other species ), and worker bees orient the dance in the actual compass direction of the resource to which they are recruiting.

One, the brother to Apis both sons of Phoroneus, is said to have founded the city of Argos in Peloponnesus, to have taught the people agriculture, and to have received Demeter, on her wanderings, at Argos, where his tomb was shown in later times.

The southern boundary is not mentioned ; however, Apis is said to have come to Argos from Naupactus " across " ( peras ), implying that Argos includes all of east Greece from the north of Thessaly to the Peloponnesian Argos, where the Danaids are probably to be conceived as having landed.