Turns out, those iconic images of gods like Anubis with animal heads aren’t literal, they’re symbolic. In ancient Egyptian religion, gods embodied duality (life/death, chaos/order, human/animal). So when a god is shown with an animal head and human body, it represents both forms at once, not that they actually walked around like that.
Reference: Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice.
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