Ancient Egyptian deities purposes. Egyptian texts often refer to deities' true, underlying forms as "mysterious". The Egyptians' visual representations of their gods are therefore not literal. They symbolize specific aspects of each deity's character, functioning much like the ideograms in hieroglyphic writing. For this reason, the funerary god Anubis is commonly shown in Egyptian art as a dog or jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threaten the preservation of buried mummies, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection. His black coloring alludes to the color of mummified flesh and to the fertile black soil that Egyptians saw as
Megasoma anubis the inflorescence of the Chinese fan palm ("Livistona chinensis"). Adults mainly feed on rotting fruits and can be found from January to April. This species has a Neotropical distribution (Brazil). Megasoma anubis Megasoma anubis is a species of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. "Megasoma anubis" can reach a length of about (including horn). These large and heavy beetles are black but they have a soft, velvety surface, as they are densely covered with a yellowish-grey dust. Males are much larger than females and have a medium length and curved horn on the head. On pronotum there is a short