CHAP. XIV. DOG MUMMIES. HOUNDS. 141 



dogs were the emblem of the two hemispheres. 

 HorapoUo* pretends that the dog represents "a 

 scribe t, a prophet (pontiff), laughter, the spleen," 

 and other things equally improbable ; and lambli- 

 chus t supposes a certain physical analogy in the 

 dog, as well as the Cynocephalus and the weasel, 

 with the Moon. But the latter evidently con- 

 founds the Moon or Thoth with the other Mer- 

 cury Anubis, to whom the dog was thought to be 

 sacred. 



The greatest number of dog mummies that 1 

 met with in Egypt were at the small town of El 

 Hareib, a little below the modern Manfaloot, at 

 Thebes, and in the vicinity of Sharona. But it is 

 probable that every town had a place of interment 

 set apart for them, as for other animals that died 

 and were buried at the public expense, which having 

 accidentally escaped the researches of modern exca- 

 vators, remain unknown. 



The different breeds of dogs in Egypt I have § 

 already mentioned, which were kept by chasseurs 

 and others for the same purposes as at the present 

 day. According to ^lian, they were the most 

 fleet in pursuit of game ; and the same quickness 

 seems to have tausjht them a mode of avoidine: 

 the crocodile while drinking at the Nile. '* For, 

 fearing to stop in one spot, lest they should be 

 carried ofl' by one of those animals, they run by 



* Horapollo, i. 39, 40., and ii. 22. 



f Perhaps a mistake arising from the Cynocephalus being the symbol 

 of Thoth and of letters. 



J Iambi, de Myst. sect. v. c. 8. § Vol. III. p. 32. 



