

Photo from I^gypt lijxploration Fund 



entrance: to jackai, cave, where hundreds oe thousands oE jackaes were buried 



"Why was the jackal so revered and why was his iDurial place selected in the holy city 

 of Abydos?. The answer is exactly the same as in the case of the ibis. The jackal was 

 sacred to Anubis, who, in the myth of Osiris, was one of the chief deities concerned in 

 winning immortality for the human race. Anubis was the friend of the righteous dead and 

 guided the soul across the trackless desert to the fields of Aalu" (see page 1048). 



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