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
Fall of Cthulhu of rituals (including vomiting one's soul and imitating Anubis by wearing a severed dog head), one can be possessed by the creature and bear it into the waking world. A final, grisly brain surgery has to be performed, including using the Colour out of Space as a symbiotic entity. Then, and only then, does the Gith possess the Vessel. The Masked Mute: a strange creature dwelling in the Dreamlands, possibly the progeny of Nyarlathotep. It takes the form of a young girl wearing myriad masks that express her emotions. Her true face can kill whoever sees it. Fall of Cthulhu