Buchis
Egyptian · deity · late period · Recorded classification
Buchis is Montu on four legs at Armant. His cult is the latest of the three great bull cults to become elaborate — from the Thirtieth Dynasty, when Egypt was running out of native dynasties — and it lasted into the Roman period, with each bull's dates carved on a stela in the Bucheion. Those stelae are useful beyond the cult: they are dated by reign, so the bulls end up being a chronology for the last stretch of Egyptian religion, right down to the last one.
Domains
- divination
Relations
- subordinate to: MontuMontu's living form at Armant, as Apis is Ptah's at Memphis and Mnevis is Ra's at Heliopolis.Reference treatment of Montu: a bull was his sacred animal, and from the 30th dynasty this bull, the Buchis, received an elaborate cult at Armant. (secondary)
Sources
- Buchis is the sacred bull of Armant and Tod, the living form of Montu, whose elaborate cult runs from the Thirtieth Dynasty and whose burials in the Bucheion are recorded on dated stelae.: Reference treatments of the Buchis bull, of Montu and of the Egyptian bull cults. (secondary)