Jackal
The jackal denotes night, scavenging, and lunar death; Egyptian tradition links it to Anubis’s guidance of souls, while Buddhist usage signifies entrenched evil.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Egyptian mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Anubis is Egyptian mythology
why
In ancient Egyptian religion, this jackal-headed god presides over mummification and the weighing of the dead's hearts.