Apis
deity figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Apis the animal
that sacred bull of the Egyptians · the Egyptian Apis · the utterances of Apis
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Sacred bull worshipped as a god by the Egyptians, cited as a counter-example to anthropomorphic divinity.
What, then, do you think — does not Apis, that sacred bull of the Egyptians, seem a god to the Egyptians?
Protrepticus
Sacred bull of Memphis, worshipped as a god yet shown killed by a foreign king and physically incorporated into the Sarapis statue.
the Memphites the Apis;
And the swallows and most of the birds fly in and defile the very statues, caring nothing for Olympian Zeus or Epidaurian Asclepius or Athena Polias or Egyptian Sarapis;
and mixing the whole with the pigment left over from the burial of Osiris and Apis, he moulded Sarapis — whose very name hints at the partnership of the burial and the fashioning from the entombment, being compounded from Osiris and Apis, Osirapis.
Stromata
Egyptian aboriginal credited with inventing medicine.
Medicine they say Apis, an Egyptian aboriginal, invented before Io came to Egypt, and that afterward Asclepius increased the art.
Orations
The sacred bull-god of Memphis whose oracles are delivered through the play of boys.
You know, doubtless, the utterances of Apis here at Memphis near you, that boys announce in play what seems good to the god, and this has proved unerring.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Egyptian bull-deity cited in a comparison the Psychics draw to disparage Xerophagy as pagan-like superstition.
As for Xerophagies, they call it a newfangled name for an affected observance, and one closely akin to pagan superstition, such as the abstinences by which they purify Apis, Isis and the Great Mother by excepting certain foods—whereas faith, free in Christ, owes the abstinence from certain foods not even to the Jewish Law, the whole shambles having been once for all permitted by the Apostle, who d …