>At the town of Hermopolis, ibises were reared specifically for sacrificial purposes, and in the Ibis Galleries at Saqqara, archaeologists found the mummies of one and a half million ibises.[29]
priests would raise them, worshippers would come and buy a freshly dead one, and then give it back to the priests so they could mummify it as a form of piety. it was like a giant insular religious racket.
