At a great distance appeared with the same pomp the sheep of Thebes, the dog of Basis, the cat of Phoebe, the crocodile of Ursine, the goat of Mendes, and all the inferior gods of Egypt, who came to pay homage to the great ox, to the mighty APIs, as powerful as Isis, Osiris, and Horus, united together. In the midst of the demigods, forty priests carried an enormous basket, filled with sacred onions. These were, it is true, gods, but they resembled onions very much.("The White Bull")