A picture of a mummified Bull, from the Smithosian Museum.

Apis is from Egyptian Mythology and is considered to be a reincarnation of Ptah. He is depicted as a big black bull with white markings on his hips and a white triangle on his forehead. It is said that after lightning struck Isis, Apis was conceived. Egyptian Pharaohs respected the bull and were inspired by the Apis’s strength and fertility in life. They brought in a live bull, thought to be Apis, into a temple in Memphis where it was worshipped and treated like a king. When it finally died, it was embalmed, mummified, and given an extravagent funeral and proper burial.

A close-up of Aten holding ankhs, as depicted in Egyptian Mythology.

Aten is from Egyptian Mythology and is described as a red solar disk with rays coming down like the sun, which are suppose to represent his goodness. At the end of each ray were hands which held ankhs, an Egyptian symbol for everlasting life. He was believed to be the one universal god in 1400 BC, according to Pharaoh Akhenaton and Queen Nefertiti. Akhenaton closed all of the temples of the other gods, such as Amun and Ra, so that everyone could just worship Aten. After the Pharoah and his wife passed things changed, people began to worship Ra and the other gods again.

In 1400 B.C., Aten was the one true god of ancient Egypt.