Why did the ancient Egyptian “jackal” choose a type of dog and his likeness in the form of Anubis, the lord of cowardice and mummification, and the one who takes care of the mummy??
I will try to explain it in its simplest form.
At the beginning of pre-dynastic times, people used to leave dead bodies in the desert or open places, some of them were buried in the sand, and some left them by placing them.
Al-Masry noticed the process of decomposition of the corpse, which did not satisfy him, so it was something painful for him.
* The ancient Egyptian also noticed that when a jackal comes and devours the corpse, it devours the intestines and inside it because it contains all the liquid materials that it wants to help it live…
When the ancient Egyptian saw that the “jackal” devoured all the intestines, he found that the corpse did not decompose as quickly as it decomposed while it was complete. The desert and its dry weather preserved the corpse for as long as possible.
When they began to embalm their bodies, they extracted all the intestines, in addition to the brain, and put them in canopic pots to preserve the corpse for as long as possible.
The ancient Egyptian decided to take the “jackal” as a symbol of the cowardly and took care of the mummy and god for embalming…
The ancient Egyptians did not worship an animal but only made symbols of it.