Apis (English spelling)

Japanese: アピス（英語表記）Apis

A bull deity in Egyptian mythology. Hapi. Greek form of Hapi. Like other Egyptian bull deities, it was originally a god of fertility and was associated with the reproduction of birds and animals, but later became associated with Ptah and Osiris. Every movement of the bull was interpreted as an omen for the future. It was widely worshiped throughout Egypt, but was especially kept and worshiped in Memphis. A grand birth festival was held once a year when the Nile began to flood, and any bull that lived for more than 25 years was drowned by the priests and buried in the temple of Serapis. The bull was considered to be a divine cow, pitch black with a square white area on its forehead and an eagle-shaped mark and a beetle-like lump on its back.

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Japanese:

エジプト神話の雄牛の神性。ハピ Hapiのギリシア語化。エジプトの他の雄牛の神性と同様に，もともと多産豊穣の神で，鳥獣の繁殖に関係していたが，のちプターやオシリスと結びつくようになった。またこの牛の動きの一つ一つが，未来の前兆として解釈された。全エジプトで広く信仰され，特にメンフィスで飼育され崇拝された。毎年1度，ナイルが増水しはじめる頃に盛大な誕生の祭典が行われたが，25年以上生きたものは僧侶により溺死させられ，セラピスの神殿に埋められた。真黒で額に方形の白い部分と，背中にわしの形の標と甲虫のような瘤がある牛が神牛とされる。

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