Egyptian Sacred Animals

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Egypt's gods wore the faces of creatures: Thoth the ibis-headed scribe of wisdom; Sobek the crocodile-god of the Nile's power; Bastet the cat-goddess of the home; Horus the falcon-king; and the Apis bull of Memphis, a living god walking among mortals — when one died, all Egypt mourned and sought the next. The animal not as symbol but as the god's very body, housed and fed and mourned. — Egyptian religion