2006-08-16 11:41:56 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's a cunning form of blasphemy.
2006-08-16 11:46:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Greyhounds are one of the oldest dog breeds known to man, with records tracing back over 8,000 years, in the form of cave drawings. The pyramids of Egypt contain numerous artifacts and wall drawings of greyhounds, in fact they were often buried alongside their masters, in the same tomb.
Nobody can say for sure how they came to be named ‘greyhounds’, but the suggestion that they used to be mainly gray in color is a lot of phooey in my opinion. I say this due to the fact that gray (or blue) is a shade, and not a true color. When mating blue dogs with other colors, the blue tends to breed out… in other words it is not a dominant color.
Another suggestion is that the name greyhounds comes from the old English words ‘grei’ meaning ‘dog’ and ‘nundr’ meaning ‘hunter’. Regardless of the origins of the name, the greyhound of today doesn’t look to be a lot different to the drawings of the dog many thousands of years ago.
Greyhounds have always been bred to hunt, and like as not, the origins of the breed lie in the fact that early man needed a means of catching small prey for food. I think the logical extension of this is that these dogs we call greyhounds, were bred by natural selection by early man to catch his food, with the breed later being refined by the Egyptians about 4,000 years ago, also for hunting. Then the nobility and landed gentry of Europe and England further refined them to give us what we know as coursing dogs.
It is possible that the depiction of Anubis as a greyhound is possible or could be with the atributes of both canines
2006-08-24 11:35:22 · answer #2 · answered by mhp_wizo_93_418 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before the fall of Rome Egypt made an alliance to Rome and took in christianity. when Egypt took in christianity they tried to remake the stories of the older Gods and Goddesses, one was calling Anubis a jackal as an insult to him.
2006-08-16 11:48:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were no Greyhounds in Ancient Egypt !
He WAS a Jackal.
2006-08-24 04:50:03 · answer #4 · answered by Minister 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He *IS* the Jackal God...he is not a greyhound and not sure where you got that info.
2006-08-16 11:49:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i am sure that back then they didn't go around asking each other 'is this a jackal or agreyhound' therefore, they dont care
2006-08-24 11:04:42 · answer #6 · answered by jsfan2510 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps because that is what he looks like in the depictions? Maybe because Christianity frowns on statues of false Gods and figured they would give a negative connotation to it in order to persuade people away from it.
2006-08-23 08:13:34 · answer #7 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he is a jackul he jus looks like a greyhound
2006-08-16 11:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by www.fantasygrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have Greyhounds that go to Egypt?? :)
2006-08-24 08:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by spiritcavegrl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he's a jackal.
2006-08-23 21:25:50 · answer #10 · answered by kolpo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋