148 THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XIV. 



were not transported to Lycopolis, but were buried 

 in the place where they happened to be found ; 

 but it is probable that they did not receive the same 

 honours throughout tlie country, and those places 

 where the sheep was particularly sacred could 

 scarcely be expected to venerate the enemies of 

 their favourite animal. 



^Han*, indeed, confines the worship of the wolf 

 to certain parts of the country, in the expression 

 " those Egyptians who venerate the wolf" But 

 his idea of their rooting up the wolfbane is one of 

 the many idle tales of ancient writers, who paused 

 not to inquire if a plant bore the same name in other 

 countries by which it was known to them, or even 

 if it was a production of the soil. 



Fox AND Jackal. 



The worship of the wolf was perhaps connected 

 with that of the fox and jackal ; and the caves of 

 Lycopolis present the mummies of these last, as 

 well as of the animal whose name it bore. 



The jackal is the invariable emblem of Anubis. 

 The Deity has the head of that animal, and it even 

 occurs in the place of the God himself. For some 

 mysterious reason it is always of a black colour ; 

 and the length of its legs, and generally elongated 

 form, show that their mode of representing it was 

 conventional. This was probably owing to their 

 confining themselves to the imitation of an early 



* yElian, ix. 18. 



