On the death of each Apis, the spirit of Osiris transferred itself to a successor. The living bulls were worshiped in Egypt. Legend ascribes the founding of the city to Menes , the traditional first king. Saqqara also Sakkara a village of northern Egypt near Cairo. All of the biblical references to Memphis are in the Prophets.
Today there is very little of the ruins for the tourist to view.
The Babylonians looked on the bull as the symbol of their greatest gods. The bull was a sacred animal in Phoenicia and Syria. Among the Semitic Canaanites the bull was the symbol of Baal . It appears that the bull was in some way connected with the reproductive processes of plants and animals and with the sun. It symbolized strength, vigor and endurance.