Aug 31, 2018
We will begin our telling of the dark side of this story in Egypt, where from perhaps the sixth millennium tomb entrances were guarded by black jackals.79 The archaic Book of the Dead (17) describes a dog-headed demon named Atum, who devoured the dead in the midst of a fiery sea. Also in Egypt, a dog- or jackal-headed divinity named Chenti Amentiu, "the first of those to the west," ruled over the subterranean necropolis of Abydos.80
the myth of the dog-men, david gordon (page 38)