Apis was the most popular of the three great bull cults of ancient Egypt ( the others being the bulls Mnewer and Bakha.

Similar image of a bull on the bottom of the obverse of the Narmer Palette from the Predynastic Period of Egypt | Predynastic period

Since the fertile soil of the Nile was so black that the word for black ( Khem ) became the Egyptian word for Egypt, and bulls in this region had a tendency to black colouring, the bull selected to be the Mnevis was traditionally completely black, thus being referred to as Kemwer, meaning great black ( one ).

* Rohl notes that no Apis bull burials are recorded in the Lesser Vaults at Saqqara for the 21st and early 22nd dynasties of Egypt.

In Egypt, whence according to the Exodus narrative the Hebrews had recently come, the Apis Bull was a comparable object of worship, which some believe the Hebrews were reviving in the wilderness ; alternatively, some believe the God of Israel was associated with or pictured as a calf / bull deity through the process of religious assimilation and syncretism.

Bull worshiping cults began to form in Assyria, Egypt, and Crete which relates to Taurus symbolizing the bull.

The Novo Nordisk logo since the year after the company ’ s foundation is the Apis bull, one of the sacred animals of ancient Egypt.

* 10th year: Appearance of the king of Lower-and Upper Egypt ; " Race of the Apis bull " ().

* 16th year: Appearance of the king of Lower Egypt ; second " Race of the Apis bull " ().

Similarities were deduced to the rights of bull worship at the time of the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt.

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