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Rh Tophra was not sure she knew. She had a vague notion that the bull Apis was holy, but why, she was not clear in her mind.



So Techo, putting an arm tenderly about her, and speaking as fathers and mothers do of high things it is good for their children to know, told her what the people of Egypt believed; that Osiris, the kind and beautiful Sun-God, had taken the earthly shape of a black bull,