CHAP. XIII. CHARACTER OF ANUBIS. 443 



character, that Pkitarch was led to the notion of 

 Anubis being *' fmze," the '* tempiis edax rerujn.'* 



Apuleius * calls " Anubis the interpreter of the 

 Gods of heaven and of Hades, sometimes with a 

 black, at others with a golden face, . . . holding in 

 his left hand a caduceus, and in his right shaking a 

 palm branch." But in this description we discover 

 the union of Anubis and Thoth, both of whom bear 

 analogy and correspond to the Mercury of Greece. 

 The office of interpreter in heaven and in Hades 

 applies to Thoth. Anubis and Thoth were both 

 Deities of Hades, and the former had sometimes a 

 black, sometimes a golden face; but the palm 

 branch belonged to Thoth, and the caduceus to 

 neither of them. And if Greek and Roman bas re- 

 liefs give to Anubis a character according with the 

 description of Apuleius, they are at direct variance 

 Avith the sculptures, and show that they are not 

 taken from Egyptian authority of an ancient date. 



I have once met with an instance of Anubis with 

 the head of a ram in lieu of the jackal ; on which 

 occasion he had assumed the attributes of Neph. 



Diodorust relates, that Anubis accompanied Osiris 

 in his Eastern expedition, together with Pan and 

 Macedo, who were his generals. Mercury (Thoth) 

 held the office of counsellor to the Queen Isis, 

 Hercules was viceroy during his absence, Busiris 

 governor of the provinces on the sea-coast to- 

 wards Phoenicia, and Antaeus of those bordering on 

 Ethiopia and Libya. Anubis and Macedo, according 

 to Diodorus, w^ere sons of Osiris ; and tlie latter is 



* Apul. Metani. U. -f Diodor. i. 17. 



