... were usually embodied in a particual animal. Sometimes a whole species of animal was sacred, as cats at Bubastis; at other times only individual animals of certain types were worshiped, as the Apis bull at Memphis. As Egyptian civilization advanced, deities were gradually humanized. Many were represented with human bodies (yet the retained animal heads) and other human characteristics and attributes. The wolf ... ...

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... of mummified animals have also been found. Animals sacred to several gods, especially in the Greco-roman period, were stacked in layers in extensive underground galleries. Some examples include the Apis bull at Saqqara, th cat of Bastet at Bubasts, and the Falcon mummy found in Abydos in Upper Egypt, thought to be from the Ptolemaic period in the second century ... ...

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