6 ORIGIN OF THE DOG. 



dog was from the earliest traceable times regarded as the 

 emblem of Anubis, Osiris, or Sirius, the former being believed 

 to be the Greek corruption of the latter. The dog was the 

 emblem of the watcher or shepherd god of the rising of the 

 Nile. 



Juvenal lib. v. sat. xv. ver. 8, states that "whole cities 

 worshipped the dog," i.e. as the emblem of Anubis. 



The Hebrew word nobeh, to bark, (which the wolf does not) 

 occurs in Isaiah liv. 10. and is evidently the root of the Hebrew 

 hanubeh, the barker, the Egyptian anubis, the Latrator 

 anubis of Ovid. The aspirate being omitted in the two latter 

 instances. Sirius is believed to have been derived from Scir, 

 which in the language of the first inhabitants of the Thebiad, 

 meant a dog. 



Perhaps the strongest proof of the non-lupine origin of the 

 dog, is that in some of the oldest writings in the world, we 

 find distinct mention of both the dog and wolf, and also of 

 their different natures, and separate and distinctive words 

 are employed to define each animal in various languages 



The dog, although sometimes spoken of as an emblem of 

 shamelessness and obscenity, and by the Hebrews as unclean, 

 (owing to its being venerated as the emblem of a fylse God 

 by the Egyptians), yet is represented as the guardian, friend, 

 and companion of man, while the wolf is ever spoken of with 

 hatred and avoidance, owing to its ravening and cruelty, 



Moses, skilled in all the learning of Egypt, writing more 

 than 2000 years B. C., mentions the watchdogs of the Egyp- 

 tians, stating (Exodus xi. 7.) " not a dog should move his 

 tongue against man or beast of the children of Israel," neither 

 the wolf nor jackal bark, therefore this is manifest reference 



