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| Anubis (The Jackal) |
This animal, the
jackal, named "
auau" or "
aasha", was related with mortuary rituals and the rages of the
gods anubis and duamutef. The jackal was taken as a strong, clean, and persistent hunter and was as well famous to ruin early Egyptian gravesites. The dog and the wolf were both revered. Anubis is described as a jackal in mortuary rests, and priests wore jackal cloaks in observances. Duamutef, one of the
Sons of Horus helping as shielder of the vital organs of the broken, was exemplified as a jackals head on the canopic jars. The jackal cult had its lines in the area of
Abydos advance in Egyptian history. The pyramid texts of the
Old Kingdom Period (2575-2134 B.C.E.) attested that a dead pharaoh would assume the face of a jackal. In time the jackal was addressed Khentiamentiu, the Prince or Lord of the West, or the Prince of the Divine Hall.
Osiris taken these titles when his cult accomplished national prominence.
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