Anubis
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Ad Nationes
Syncretic dog-headed Egyptian deity formed from combined animal and human worship.
But because they had undertaken to worship both beasts and men, they combined both faces into one Anubis, in whom that quarrelsome race might be seen rather to have consecrated the proofs of its own nature and condition — recoiling against its own kings, cast down among strangers, and indeed itself a slave even in gluttony and canine filthiness.
Apologeticum
Egyptian god portrayed as an adulterer in Roman mime.
is it mimes or your gods that you laugh at in the jests and tricks — the adulterer Anubis, and the masculine Moon, and Diana flogged, and the reading of dead Jupiter's will, and the three famished Herculeses mocked?