Apis Bulls
The Apis Bulls are large bull-like animals with long horns. They are similar in appearance to the Decorated Jackals, being dark blue and black with gilded areas on their heads, legs, tails and necks. They also have a large golden beard similar to those that were worn by the Pharaohs.
Unlike the jackals they are totally impervious to gunfire. They can also charge faster than Lara can run making them dangerous both up close and from far away.
Like the jackals however, they often pose as statues before animating when Lara approaches them. They are usually encountered individually, and even when there are more than one of them, only one is combatted at a time.
They are one of the few invincible adversaries in The Last Revelation.
Notes
Apis, Hapis or Hapi-ankh was a god worshipped in the Memphis area of Ancient Egypt. Cows and bulls were one of the foremost religious symbols of Egyptian mythology, symbolising fertility, and these animals were also often used for sacrifice.
Eventually, the incarnations of Apis (as black bulls) would be chosen by priests and would live in a palace in Memphis for the rest of his life. The death of an incarnation of Apis and the discovery of a new one were great events in Ancient Egyptian life. Incarnations of Apis were buried in their own tombs in the Serapeum at Saqqara.
Apis was considered to be linked to both the gods Ptah and Osiris. Later, he became the centre of the Hellenstic-Egyptian cult of Serapis - now in the form of man rather than a bull.
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A statue of Apis exhibited in the Louvre.
The Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, a derivative of Apis.
