Sacred bulls

sacred bull in Egyptian mythology

idol worshipped by the Israelites in the Book of Exodus and the First Book of Kings

Ideological creature in Hinduism and Indic religions, usually depicted as a Bull

bull in Greek mythology

Mnevis (, ) is the Hellenized name of an ancient Egyptian bull god which had its centre of worship at Heliopolis, and was known to the ancient Egyptians as Mer-wer or Nem-wer.

thumb|upright=1.2|The Bull-Leaping Fresco from the Great Palace at [[Knossos, Crete]] thumb|upright=1.2|The bull-leaper, an ivory [[figurine from the palace of Knossos, Crete. The only complete surviving figure of a larger arrangement of figures. This is the earliest three dimensional representation of the bull leap. It is assumed that thin gold pins were used to suspend the figure over a bull.]]

In Egyptian mythology, Buchis (, ) (also spelt Bakh and Bakha) was the deification of the kꜣ ("power, life-force", Egyptological pronunciation ka) of the war god Montu as a sacred bull that was worshipped in the region of Hermonthis. In order to being chosen as the Buchis incarnation of Montu, a bull was required to have a white body and black face. When these bulls – and in later times also their mothers – died, they were mummified, and placed in a special cemetery known as the Bucheum.

mythical creature

Burial place of Apis bulls in Saqqara

deity

thumb|300px|Aristeas and bugonia. Virgil's Georgics. Lyon. 1517 Bugonia (; bougoníā) was a folk practice in the ancient Mediterranean region based on the belief that bees were spontaneously generated from a cow's carcass. By extension, it was thought that fumigation with cow dung was beneficial to the health of the hive.

open air ancient cult installation now in the West Bank