Apis/Golden Calve

As strange as it may seem, Believers are usually afraid to study this subject, leaving themselves ill-equipped to understand more than 250 verses in the Biblical Text and approximately 40 different gods and goddesses.
Apis was a sacred bull worshipped as early as the fourth dynasty in Egypt (2575 B.E. possibly even to the first dynasty 2929 B.E., and as late as the time of Emperor Julian the apostate in 363 A.D.).
Apis was supposedly begat by a moonbeam, and was recognized by several characteristic marks. In Memphis, Egypt the Apis was associated with Ptah, a creator idol, as well as Osiris, the idol of the dead. It is thought that the Apis bull inspired the Golden Calve which the Israelites made at Mt. Sinai in Ex. 32:4-35, and the golden calves Jeroboam set up in the Northern Kingdom of Israel after visiting Egypt. Jeremiah 46:13-14, means in saying, why has Apis fled or been swept away? Various festivals were associated with Apis as a fertility idol. When the Apis bull died, his successor was diligently sought throughout Egypt requiring the specific characteristics of a black coat with a white triangle on the forehead, a white vulture on its back, and a scarab beneath the tongue.
The bull was taken to a colonnaded temple where it could be viewed. The temple even had an embalming chamber and a special room to house the mother of the current Apis. During the first millennium B.E. the average life span of an Apis bull was 16-19 years. During the late Egyptian period Apis worship took the form of a national cult. This was the emphasis of what Jeremiah meant as he referred to the fleeing Apis referring actually to the dissolving of the Egyptian Kingdom in 46:44-46